Packages are then made, each containing twelve of these bales, seven at bottom, five at top, pressed close to each other, with the corded side upward, wrapped in mats and corded.

These are placed in dry situations, and again covered with matting.

Each of these packages contains from ninety to a hundred pounds of dried fish, which in this state will keep sound for several years.** **( Lewis and Clarke, vol.ii.p.

32.) We have given this process at some length, as furnished by the first explorers, because it marks a practiced ingenuity in preparing articles of traffic for a market, seldom seen among our aboriginals.

For like reason we would make especial mention of the village of Wishram, at the head of the Long Narrows, as being a solitary instance of an aboriginal trading mart, or emporium.