History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean: Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. By Order of the Government of the United States, Volume 2Pub by Bradford and Inskeep, 1814 - Columbia River |
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... common opinion , that the treatment of women is the stand- ard by which the virtues of an Indian may be known , combatted , and dispro- ved by examples . The respect entertained by these Indians for old age , com- pared with the ...
... common opinion , that the treatment of women is the stand- ard by which the virtues of an Indian may be known , combatted , and dispro- ved by examples . The respect entertained by these Indians for old age , com- pared with the ...
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... common being made of mud and sticks like an oven , but the mode of raising the steam is exactly the same . Among both these nations it is very uncommon for a man to bathe alone , he is generally accompanied by one or some- times several ...
... common being made of mud and sticks like an oven , but the mode of raising the steam is exactly the same . Among both these nations it is very uncommon for a man to bathe alone , he is generally accompanied by one or some- times several ...
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... the house , for the pur- pose of admitting the light and suffering the smoke to pass through : the roof is nearly flat , which seems to indicate that rains are not common in this open country , 12 Lewis and Clarke's Expedition.
... the house , for the pur- pose of admitting the light and suffering the smoke to pass through : the roof is nearly flat , which seems to indicate that rains are not common in this open country , 12 Lewis and Clarke's Expedition.
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... common in this open country , and the house is not divided into apartments , the fire being in the middle of the large room , and immediately under the hole in the roof : the rooms are ornamented with their nets , gigs , and other ...
... common in this open country , and the house is not divided into apartments , the fire being in the middle of the large room , and immediately under the hole in the roof : the rooms are ornamented with their nets , gigs , and other ...
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... common amongst us , and near the eaves is perforated with a number of small holes , made most probably to dis- charge their arrows in case of an attack . The only entrance is by a small door at the gable end , cut out of the middle ...
... common amongst us , and near the eaves is perforated with a number of small holes , made most probably to dis- charge their arrows in case of an attack . The only entrance is by a small door at the gable end , cut out of the middle ...
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abundant animal appearance bark berry black alder branch brant brown buffaloe camp canoes captain Clarke captain Lewis Cataract river chief Chinnooks Chopunnish Clarke's river Clatsops colour Columbia common cottonwood covered creek crossed deer dians distance ducks eight encamped entrance fallow deer falls feet fish fort Clatsop four geese grass half halted hills horses houses hundred hunt hunters inches Indians inhabitants island Killamucks killed Kooskooskee land last night Lewis's river Mandans Missouri morning mount Hood mount Jefferson mouth Multnomah nation natives neighbourhood Northwest company o'clock party passed pine plains prairie proceeded procure quamash quantities rain rapid reached resembling reside returned Ricaras rocks Rocky mountains roots route salmon sandbar sandhill crane seen shore side skins snow soon southwest species tail three miles timber trade tribe village visited wappatoo Wappatoo island weather wind yards wide
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Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 135 - The treatment of women is often considered as the standard by which the moral qualities of savages are to be estimated. Our own observation, however, induced us to think that the importance of the female in savage life has no necessary relation to the virtues of the men, but is regulated wholly by their capacity to be useful. The Indians, whose treatment of the females is mildest, and who pay most deference to their opinions, are by no means the most distinguished for their virtues ; nor is this...
Page 22 - It stands east and west, and neither of the extremities are closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leather robes, and arranged in rows on boards, which were then covered with a mat. This was the part destined for those who had...
Page 386 - ... of a light-coloured gritty rock. The soil of the top is five or six feet deep, of a good quality, and covered with short grass. The Indians have carved the figures of animals and other objects on the sides of the rock, and on the top are raised two piles of stones.
Page 278 - The usual outhouse, or retiring hut for females, is not omitted. Their chief subsistence is roots, and the noise made by the women in pounding them gives the hearer the idea of a nail factory. Yet...
Page 57 - After being so long accustomed to the dreary nakedness of the country above. the change is as grateful to the eye, as it is useful in supplying us with fuel. Four miles from the village is a point of land on the right, where the hills become lower, but are still thickly timbered. The river is now about two miles wide, the current smooth and gentle, and the effect of the tide has been sensible since leaving the rapid.
Page 2 - States or in the Rocky mountains. It was a hollow square of six or eight feet deep, formed in the river bank by damming up with mud the other three sides, and covering the whole completely except an aperture about two feet wide at the top. The bathers descend by this hole, taking with them a number of heated stones and jugs of water; and after being seated round the room, throw the water on the stones till the steam becomes of a temperature sufficiently high for their purposes.
Page 163 - Indians prize more highly than horses. An elegant horse may be purchased of the natives for a few beads or other paltry trinkets which in the United States would not cost more than one or two dollars. The abundance and cheapness of horses will be extremely advantageous to those who may hereafter attempt the fur trade to the East Indies, by the way of Columbia river and the Pacific ocean.
Page 509 - The thunder and lightning of the last evening was violent, a singular occurrence for the time of year; the loss of my thermometer I most sincerely regret. I am confident that the climate here, is much warmer than in the same parallel of latitude on the Atlantic ocean, though how many degrees it is now out of my power to determine.
Page 433 - Observations and reflections on the present and future state of Upper Louisiana, in relation to the government of the Indian nations inhabiting that country, and the trade and intercourse with the same.