Patrick Gass: November 18, 1805

and 10 men went down to Cape Disappointment, to get a
more full view of the ocean; and 3 went out to hunt. In the
course of the day we got some dried salmon and roots from
the natives. In the evening our hunters came in with a
deer, 2 brants, a squirrel, a hawk, and a flounder, which the
tide had thrown on a sand-bar. The Indians still remained
with us and Capt. Lewis got a specimen of their language.
Those, who live about the seashore, and on Rogue’s-harbour
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creek, a large creek that comes in on the north side of the
bay, call themselves the Chin-Ook nation.