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Saturday 26th Oct. 1805 a clear pleasant morning. we lay camped on the clift or pt. of rocks for Safety 2 Sentinels to guard us. our officers conclude to delay here for observation and repair the canoes &c So we unloaded all the canoes Shaved the bottoms Smooth and paythe? them over and made them in good repair &c. Several men out a hunting a nomber of the natives visited us. we dryed the articles which got wet in the canoe that filled yesterday one of the men giged a Salmon Trout in the River towards evening the hunters returned to Camp and killed five 5 deer a goose and a gray squirrel they saw a great nomber of deer in the timbered land. we Saw a great no. of geese and ducks the Savages came in crafts to out camp made of Solid wood but are made in form of Sciffs for the convenience of riding the waves in high winds or to coast along the sea shore Several of the Indians Stayed with us this night one of them a chief Capt. Lewis compared the languages of these with those which he had taken down all the way this side of the mountains and find them to be all one nation but differ a little in their languages ?caused? by the different tribes unclear such a long distance