Moving down the Columbia above present John Day Dam, the paddlers navigate several rapids while the non-swimmers walk around them—something Clark says has become routine. They buy food and firewood from local Indians who show “great kindness”, Pvt. Collins shares his camas-brewed beer, and Mt. Hood is in view.
In Washington City, President Jefferson ships Lewis‘s Fort Mandan specimens to Charles Willson Peale.
In St. Louis, James Wilkinson orders Amos Stoddard to take an Indian delegation organized by Lewis and Clark to Washington City.
Collins Makes Beer
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Kind Reception
Those people recived us with great kindness, and examined us with much attention, their employments custom Dress and appearance Similar to those above; Speak the same language, here we Saw two Scarlet and a blue cloth blanket, also a Salors Jacket the Dress of the men of this tribe only a Short robe of Deer or Goat Skins, and that of the womn is a Short piece of Dressd Skin which fall from the neck So as to Cover the front of the body as low as the waste
—William Clark
Breakfast
we got from those people a fiew pounded rotes [Nicholas Biddle: roots] fish and Acorns of the white oake, those Acorns they make use of as food, and inform us they precure them of the nativs who live near the falls below which place they all discribe by the term Timm—
—William Clark
Rapids
we halted a fiew minits to examine the rapid before we entered it which was our constant Custom, and at all that was verry dangerous put out all who could not Swim to walk around
—William Clark
Mt. Hood
from this rapid the Conocil mountain is S. W. which the Indians inform me is not far to the left of the great falls; this I call the Timm or falls mountain it is high and the top is covered with Snow)
—William Clark
Immense Piles of Rocks
emence piles of rocks appears as if Sliped from the Clifts under which they lay passed great number of rocks in every direction Scattered in the river
—William Clark
Home-brewed Beer
J. Collins presented us with Some verry good beer made of the Pa-shi-co-quar-mash [Camas] bread, which bread is the remains of what was laid in as Stores of Provisions, at the first flat heads or Cho-pun-nish [Nez Perce] Nation at the head of the Kosskoske [Clearwater] river which by being frequently wet molded & Sowered &c.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
Day of the month Wind State of the Weather 21st S W fair Note from the 18th to the 22d of octr. descending the Great Columbia to the falls [Celilo Falls].
—William Clark3
Peale’s Shipment
Thomas Jefferson informs Charles Willson Peale that he has shipped several specimens to Philadelphia.
Washington Oct. 21. 05
Dear Sir
The day before yesterday I sent to Alexandria
- 1. a large box containing skins, skeletons & horns
- 1. small box containing the Polygraph
- 1. do. with minerals for the Phil. society to be presented in capt Lewis’s name.
- a cage with a living magpie.
Th. Jefferson4
Stoddard’s Deputation
St. Louis Octr. 21st 1805
Sir,
You are to proceed tomorrow morning with the Indian Deputation destined to visit the President at the City of Washington, by St. Vincennes and Louisville to Frankfort, where it may be found most expedient to take the Stage but of this you are to be the judge . . . .
Ja: Wilkinson5
The Indian deputies were encouraged by the captains go to St. Louis where they would be taken to Washington City. Captain Amos Stoddard was charged with taking them there.
Notes
- Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio.
- Moulton, Journals, 319n4.
- Some abbreviations have been spelled out.
- Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 264.
- Ibid., 264–5.
