The Altitude
Of The Peak Is Nine Thousand Seven Hundred And Fifty Feet.
"Having Arrived At The Lower Ends Of
The rapids below the bluff
before any of the rest of the party, be sat down on a rock
to
Wait for them, and, seeing a crane fly across the river,
shot it, and it fell near him. Several Indians had been
before this passing on the opposite side towards the rapids,
and some who were then nearly in front of him, being either alarmed
at his appearance or the report of the gun, fled to their houses.
Captain Clark was afraid that these people had not yet heard
that the white men were coming, and therefore, in order to allay
their uneasiness before the rest of the party should arrive, he got
into the small canoe with three men, rowed over towards the houses,
and, while crossing, shot a duck, which fell into the water.
As he approached no person was to be seen except three men
in the plains, and they, too, fled as he came near the shore.
He landed in front of five houses close to each other, but no
one appeared, and the doors, which were of mat, were closed.
He went towards one of them with a pipe in his hand, and,
pushing aside the mat, entered the lodge, where he found
thirty-two persons, chiefly men and women, with a few children,
all in the greatest consternation; some hanging down their heads,
others crying and wringing their hands.
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