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First Across the Continent

CHAPTER XV -- Down the Pacific Slope
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She sang in a wild, incoherent manner, and offered to the spectators all the little articles she possessed, scarifying herself in a horrid manner if anyone refused her present.

She seemed to be an object of pity among the Indians, who suffered her to do as she pleased without interruption." The river was full of rapids and very dangerous rocks and reefs, and the voyagers were able to make only twenty miles a day for some distance along the stream.

At the confluence of the Kooskooskee and the Snake River they camped for the night, near the present site of Lewiston, Idaho.

This city, first settled in May, 1861, and incorporated in 1863, was named for Captain Lewis of our expedition.

From this point the party crossed over into the present State of Washington.


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