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Onions, Bombing Range Boundary, Boardman, Oregon, December 20, 2002

[View: north.  45_­­º 45’ 32” N - 119º 37’ 25” W]

[Clark]                                                                         October 19^th Saturday 1805

. . .  I observed a great number of Lodges on the opposit Side at Some distance

below and Several Indians on the opposit bank. . .at which place they delayed but

a Short time before they returned to their Lodges as fast as they could run, I was

fearfull that those people might not be informed of us, I deturmined to take the little

Canoe. . .and proceed. . .to the Lodges, on my aproach not one person was to be

Seen except three men off in the plains, and they Sheared off as I aproached. . .

the enteranc or Dores of the Lodges wer Shut. . .I approached one with a pipe

in my hand entered a lodge which was the nearest to me found 32 persons men,

women and a few children Setting permiscuesly in the Lodg, in the greatest

agutation, Some crying and ringing there hands, others hanging their heads.  I

gave my hand to them all and made Signs of my friendly dispotion and offered

the men my pipe to Smok and distributed a fiew Small articles which I had in my

pockets,—this measure passified those distressed people verry much. . .  They

said we came from the clouds. . .and were not men. . .