Clark: January 24, 1806

Sunday 24th of January 1806 Drewyer and Bapteist laPage returned this
morning in a large Canoe with Commowol and six Clatsops. they brought two
Deer and three Elk and one elk Skin, haveing given the flesh of one other
Elk they killed and three Elk skins to the Indians as the price of their
assistance in transporting the ballance of the meat to the Fort; these
Deer and Elk were killed near pt. Adams and those Indians Carried them on
their Backs near 4 miles, before the waves were Sufficiently low to permit
their being taken on board their Canoes. The indians remain’d with us all
day. The Clapsots witnessed Drewyers Shooting Some of those Elk, which has
given them a very exolted opinion of us as marksmen and the Superior
excellency of our rifles Compared with their guns; this may probably be of
service to us, as it will deter them from any acts of hostility if they
have ever meditated any such.

our air gun also astonishes them very much, they Cannot Comprehend its
Shooting So often and without powder, and think that it is great medison
which Comprehends every thing that is to them incomprehensible.

The nativs of this neighbourhood ware no further Covering than a light
roabe, their feet legs & every other part exposed to the frost Snow
& ice &c.