Rained last night without intermission and this morning the wind blew hard from the [blank] We Could not move, one Canoe was broken last night against the rocks, by the waves dashing her against them in high tide about 10 oClock 5 Indians Come up in a Canoe thro emence waves & Swells, they landed and informed us they Saw the 3 men we Sent down yesterday, at Some distance below Soon after those people Came
rained all the last night without intermition, and this morning. wind blows verry hard but our Situation is Such that we Cannot tell from what point it comes— one of our Canoes is much broken by the waves dashing it against the rocks— 5 Indians Came up in a Canoe, thro' the waves, which is verry high and role with great fury— They made Signs to us that they Saw the 3 men we Sent down yesterday. only 3 of those Indians landed, the other 2 which was women played off in the waves, which induced me to Suspect that they had taken Something from our men below, at this time one of the men
War-ci-a-cum
N.
Thursday 14th Nov. 1805. the Storm continues, and obledges us to Stay in this disagreeable harbour with nothing but pounded Sammon to Eat. one of the men returned who had been down the River and informed us that they went down to an Indian Village in the bay about 10 miles down but Saw no white people.
Thursday 14th. We expected last night to have been able to proceed on this morning, but the rain continued, and the river still remained rough; and we are therefore obliged to lie by. About noon one of the 3 men who had
gone in the canoe, returned having broke the lock of his gun: but the other two went on by land, as the swells ran so high that they could not possibly get the canoe along. About the same time some Indians in a canoe came up the river, and had stolen a gig from the men; but the one who returned got it from them again when he came up. In the evening
Thursday Novemr. 13th The storm continued hard during the whole of last night, and this morning we have rainey disagreeable weather. The waves continued to run very high and we continued at our encampment waiting for moderate weather. We have nothing to subsist on but fresh fish, & pounded Salmon; which is by no means nourishing. One of the Men that had went down the River Yesterday [crossed out, illegible] returned by land. He informed us that he had been at an Indian Village near the mouth of the River, but had not seen any white people.