JOURNAL. 139- 
Tuesday ]8//>. The weather ^^^as iiiucli ilke that 
of yestfin4ii^% andjsmi>^i in the course of the 
day. Some of the men^are repaTrlTr5-t?»^--tixialLca- 
noes, and making preparations to return' up the rivcr7 
as soon as the wccither wiii permit. One of tlie hun- 
ters kilied an elk. 
The morning of the 1 9th was stormy, same hard 
showers of bail fell and it continued cloudy through 
the day. 
Thursday 20th, The v/hole of this day was wet 
and disagreeable. We intended to have set out to 
day on our return, but the weather was too bad. I 
made a calculiition of tns nnrnber of ehk and deer 
killed by the party from the 1st of Dec. 1805 to the 
20th March 1806, which |^ave ISl elk and 20 deer- 
There were a few smaller quadrupeds killed such as 
otter and beaver; and one racoon. The meat o^ 
some of the elk was not brought to the fort. 
Friday 2\8t. We had cloudy w^t morning. Two 
of the hunters w^ent out this morning- ; and about 10 
o'clock we were visited by some of the Clat-sop In- 
dians. These and the Chin-ook, Cath-la-mas, Cal- 
a-mex and Chiltz nations, who inhabit tlie seacoast, 
all dress in the same manner. The men are whoHy 
naked f pt a small robe; the women have only the 
the addiiion of the short petticoat. Their language 
also is nearly the same ; and they all observe the 
same c-eremony of depositing v/ith the remains of the 
dead all their property, or placing it at their graves. 
I believe I saw as many as an hundred canoes atone 
bury ing-place of the Chin-ooks, on thq north side of 
the Columbia, at its entrance into Hailey's Bay : and 
there are a great many at the burying-place of every 
village. These Indians on the coast have no horses^ 
and very little property of any kind, except their ca- 
noes. The women are much inclined to venery, and 
like tiiose on the Missouri are sold to prostitution ;. t 
an easy rate. Au old Chin-ook squaw freqi'^nl^v 
