HISTORY

OF

THE EXPEDITION

UNDER THE COMMAND OF

CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARKE,

TO

THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS, AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE
PACIFIC OCEAN: PERFORMED DURING THE

YEARS 1804, 1805, 1806,

BY ORDER OF THE

GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

PREPARED FOR THE PRESS

BY PAUL ALLEN, ESQ

,

REVISED, AND ABRIDGED KY THE OMISSION OF UMIMPORTAnt de-
TAILS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION And notes,

BY ARCHIBALD M VICKAR.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-ST.

A.2.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

Checked
May 1913

1907

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

The Party, after procuring Horses from the Shoshonees, proceed

on their Journey through the Mountains.-Difficulties and

Dangers of the Route.-Council held with another Band of the

Shoshonees, of whom some Account is given.-They are re-

duced to the Necessity of killing their Horses for Food.-Cap-

tain Clarke, with a small Party, precedes the main Body in

quest of Provisions, and is hospitably received by the Pierced-

Nose Indians.-Arrival of the main Body among this Tribe,

with whom a Council is held.-They resolve to perform the

Remainder of their Journey in Canoes.-Sickness among the

Party. They descend the Kooskooskee to its Junction with

Lewis River, after passing several dangerous Rapids.-Brief

Description of the Manners and Dress of the Pierced-Nose

Indians

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CHAPTER IE...

Departure of the Party.-Description, of an Indian Sweating-

bath and Burial-pace, Dangerous Rapids.-Visits from the

Indians, who manifest & pacific Disposition. Description of the

Sokulk Tribe.-Their Dress, and Marner or building Houses.

-Their pacific Character.-Their Habits of Living.-Their

Mode of boiling Salmon.-Vast Quantities of Salmon among

the Sokulks.-Council held with this Tribe.-The Terror

and Consternation excited by Captain Clarke.-Some Ac-

count of the Pishquitpaws.-Their Mode of burying the Dead

CHAPTER III.

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The Party in their Descent still visited by the Indians.-Le-

page's River.-Towahnahiooks River.-Indian Mode of stack-

ing Fish, and preparing them for Market.-Description of the

Great Falls.-Description of an Indian Canoe.-Alarm excited

by an anticipated Attack from the Eheltoots.-Dangerous

Rapid, called by the Indians The Falls.-Account of the In-