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the rocks are high and steep. we went about 32 miles and camped at some Indians camps on the stard. side a handsom spring ran from a clift of rocks near our camp. we bought some wood from the natives to cook with these natives appear to be mostly covered in deer and elk some rabit & squerrel skins. they have some blue cloth blankets we passed a small river which came in on the Larboard Tuesday 22nd Oct. 1805. a clear pleasant morning. we set out soon after after sunrise and proceeded on passed fishing camps on the Star. side high clifts on each side of dark couloured rock and a high rock island with rough towers of solid rough rocks on it a very rough roaring rapid at the lard. side which is the main body of the river we went down on the unclear side a river puts in on the lard. side about 40 yards wide opposite the lower part of the island high hills & clifts on each side. but the highest is on the Stard. side all the natives on this river at the most of their camps have fish nets which they catch the sammon in the spring in great abundance. saw considerable of sand along the shores for several days past we proceeded on to the lower end of unclear Island which is about 4 miles long at the lower end is a great nomber of fishing camps a short distance below is the first falls of the Columbian River we halted little above about noon and tonight some pounded fish and root bread of the natives who are very thick about these falls. Some of them have lodges and some have cabbins of white