To these men we declared that if ever any one of their nation stole anything from us, he should be instantly shot.

They reside to the north of this place, and speak a language different from that of the people higher up the river.
"It was now apparent that the sea was at all times too rough for us to proceed further down the bay by water.

We therefore landed, and having chosen the best spot we could select, made our camp of boards from the old (Chinook) village.

We were now situated comfortably, and being visited by four Wahkiacums with wappatoo-roots, were enabled to make an agreeable addition to our food." On the seventeenth Captain Lewis with a small party of his men coasted the bay as far out as Cape Disappointment and some distance to the north along the seacoast.

Game was now plenty, and the camp was supplied with ducks, geese, and venison.