The whole of the walls as well as the door were decorated with strange figures cut and painted on them; and besides were several wooden images of men, some so old and decayed as to have almost lost their shape, which were all placed against the sides of the vaults.

These images, as well as those in the houses we have lately seen, do not appear to be at all the objects of adoration; in this place they were most probably intended as resemblances of those whose decease they indicate; when we observe them in houses, they occupy the most conspicuous part, but are treated more like ornaments than objects of worship." The white men were visited at their camp by many Indians from the villages farther up the stream.

The journal says:-- "We had an opportunity of seeing to-day the hardihood of the Indians of the neighboring village.

One of the men shot a goose, which fell into the river and was floating rapidly toward the great shoot, when an Indian observing it plunged in after it.

The whole mass of the waters of the Columbia, just preparing to descend its narrow channel, carried the animal down with great rapidity.