At the eastern extremity was a mat, on which twenty-one skulls were placed in a circular form; the mode of interment being first to wrap the body in robes, then as it decays to throw the bones into the heap, and place the skulls together.

From the different boards and pieces of canoes which form the vault were suspended, on the inside, fishing-nets, baskets, wooden bowls, robes, skins, trenchers, and trinkets of various kinds, obviously intended as offerings of affection to deceased relatives.

On the outside of the vault were the skeletons of several horses, and great quantities of their bones were in the neighborhood, which induced us to believe that these animals were most probably sacrificed at the funeral rites of their masters." Just below this stand the party met Indians who traded with tribes living near the great falls of the Columbia.

That place they designated as "Tum-tum," a word that signifies the throbbing of the heart.

One of these Indians had a sailor's jacket, and others had a blue blanket and a scarlet blanket.