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Volume I is available as Project Gutenberg eBook #16565.

Obvious typos have been corrected, but period and inconsistent spelling left as is.

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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.

PREPARED FOR THE PRESS
BY PAUL ALLEN, ESQUIRE.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND
ABM. H. INSKEEP, NEW YORK.
J. Maxwell, Printer.
1814.


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DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-second day of January, in thethirty-eighth year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1814,Bradford & Inskeep, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of abook, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, to the words following, to wit:

“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 theRiver Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the Years 1804-5-6, byorder of the Government of the United States. Prepared for the press by PaulAllen, Esquire.”

In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled “An act forthe encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books,to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned.”And also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to an act, entitled, “Anact for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, andbooks, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned,”and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, andetching historical and other prints.”

DAVID CALDWELL,

Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.


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CONTENTS

VOL. II.
CHAPTER I.
The party proceed in canoes. Description of an Indian sweating bath andburial place. Many dangerous rapids passed. Narrow escape of one of the canoes.In the passage down they are visited by several Indians, all of whommanifest pacific dispositions. Description of the Sokulk tribe. Their dress, andmanner of building houses. Their pacific character. Their habits of living.Their mode of boiling salmon. Vast quantities of salmon amongst the Sokulk.Council held with this tribe. The terror and consternation excited by captainClark, concerning which an interesting cause is related. Some accountof the Pisquitpaws. Their mode of burying the dead.1
CHAPTER II.
The party in their passage still visited by the Indians. Lepage’s river described.Immen
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