Photo courtesy Dennis DuBois.

On December 7, 1805 the expedition moved to their winter camp location South of the Columbia inland. January 6, 1806. Lewis: The Clatsop, Chinnooks, Killamucks &c. are very loquacious and inquisitive; they possess good memories and have repeated to us the names capasities of the vessels &c of many traders and others who have visited the mouth of this river; they are generally low in stature, proportionably small, reather lighter complected and much more illy formed than the Indians of the Missouri and those of our frontier;     they are generally cheerfull but never gay.

More about the people: January 4, 1806. Lewis: These people the Chinnooks and others residing in this neighborhood and Speaking the Same language have been very friendly to us; they appear to be mild inoffensive people but will pilfer if they have and opportunity to do so where they conceive themselves not liable to detection. they are great higlers in trade and if they conceive you anxious to purchase will be a whole day bargaining for a handfull of roots; this I should have thought proceeded from their want of knowledge of the comparitive value of articles of merchandize and the fear of being cheated, did I not find that they invariably refuse the price first offered them and afterwards very frequently accept a smaller quantity of the same article...

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