Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — Patrick Gass: November 17, 1805

hunters went out. About noon they all came in: but the
hunter who remained out last night did not return. He had
killed 2 deer and the other men brought them in with some
brants and a deer they had killed. About the same time
Capt. Lewis, and his party returned. They had been round
the bay and seen where white people had been in the course
of the summer: but they had all sailed away. Capt. Lewis
and his party killed a deer and some brants. In the evening
the remaining hunter came in and had killed another deer.
There are but few Indians settled down about the sea-
shore; their dress is similar to that of some of those above.
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The women have a kind of fringe petticoats, made of filaments
or tassels of the white cedar bark wrought with a string at
the upper part, which is tied round the waist. These tassels
or fringe are of some use as a covering, while the ladies are
standing erect and the weather calm; but in any other posi-
tion, or when the wind blows, their charms have but a precari-
ous defence.
A number of both sexes keep about our camp; some have
robes made of muskrat skins sewed together and I saw some
of loon-skins. Their diet is chiefly fish and roots.
MEMORANDUM
Of the computed distance in miles to the furthest point of
discovery on the Pacific ocean, from the place where the
canoes were deposited near the head of the Missouri, which
from its mouth
is 3096
From place of deposit to head spring – – – + 24
To first fork of the She-sho-ne river – – – – 14
To first large fork down the river – – – – 18
To forks of the road at mouth of Tour creek – – 4
To fishing creek, after leaving the river – – – 23
To Flathead, or Clarke’s river at Fish camp – – 4I
To the mouth of Travellers-rest creek – – – 76
To the foot of the great range of Mountains, east side 12
To ditto ditto ditto west side 130
To the Flathead village in a plain – – – – 3
To the Koos-koos-ke river – z 2 co c – 18
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION — 177
To the Canoe camp, at the forks – – – – 6
To the Ki-moo-ee-nem – – – – – – 60
To the Great Columbia, by Lewis’s river – – – 140
To the mouth of the Sho-sho-ne, or Snake river – – 162
To the Great Falls of Columbia – – – – – 6
To the Short Narrows – – – – – – – 3
To the Long ditto – – – – – – – 3
To the mouth of Catarack river, north side – – 23
To the Grand Shoot, or Rapids – – – – – 42
To the Last Rapids, or Strawberry island – – – 6
To the mouth of Quicksand river, south side — – – 26
To Shallow Bay, at salt water – – – – – 136
To Blustry Point, on north side – – – – – 13
To Point Open-slope, below encampment – – – 3
To Chink-Ook river at the bottom of Haley’s Bay – 12
To Cape Disappointment on Western ocean – – 13
To Capt. Clarke’s tour N. W. along coast – + 10
Miles 4133