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Meeting the Clatsop Indians
Driving rain, stinging sleet, howling wind and human misery became the norm as the Corps of Discovery entered the tidewater area of the Columbia. Massive waves, heavy winds, fluctuating tides and sawyers made canoeing impossible for these seasoned boatmen. Stranded upon Ellice Pointe for several days, unable to move due to steep rock ledges surrounding them and a surly and inhospitable river in front of them, the Corps reluctantly remained helplessly ashore on a small spit of land. Rains drenched them tidewater damaged their canoes, and their buckskin clothing rotted on their bodies; but, the Clatsops arrived daily to trade, plying the choppy waves of the ocean/river with ease in their magnificent, slender, ornate canoes.
Many more discoveries await the curious in The Lewis & Clark Expedition in an Uncharted Wildernessİ.
