The natives are extravegantly fond of the most common cheap blue and white beads,
Meriwether Lewis

Set out at day lighte every man Some meat of the whale and a little oile
William Clark

the Weather cleared off this morning & became warm & pleasant.
Joseph Whitehouse

Our men are now very much engaged in dressing Elk and Deer skins for mockersons and cloathing.
Meriwether Lewis

The Clatsops Chinnooks &c. bury their dead in their canoes.
for this purpose four pieces of split timber are set erect on end, and sunk a few feet in the grown, each brace having their flat sides opposite to each other and sufficiently far assunder to admit the width of the canoes in which the dead are to be deposited;
through each of these perpendicular posts, at the hight of six feet a mortice is cut, through which two bars of wood are incerted;
on these cross bars a small canoe is placed in which the body is laid after being carefully roled in a robe of some dressed skins;
Meriwether Lewis

This traffic on the part of the whites consists in vending, guns, (principally old british or American musquits) powder, balls and Shot, Copper and brass kettles, brass teakettles and coffee pots, blankets from two to three point, scarlet and blue Cloth (coarse), plates and strips of sheet copper and brass, large brass wire, knives, beads and tobacco with fishinghooks buttons and some other small articles; also a considerable quantity of Sailor's cloaths, as hats coasts, trowsers and shirts.
Meriwether Lewis

The natives are extravegantly fond of the most common cheap blue and white beads, of moderate size, or such that from 50 to 70 will weigh one penneyweight. the blue is usually pefered to the white; these beads constitute the principal circulating medium with all the indian tribes on the river; for these beads they will dispose any article they possess.— the beads are strung on strans of a fathom in length and in that manner sold by the bredth or yard.—
Meriwether Lewis

those people proceeded on with us to the Salt works, at which place we arrived late in the evening, found them without meat, and 3 of the Party J. Field Gibson & Shannon out hunting.
as I was excessively fatigued and my party appeared verry much so, I deturmined to Stay untill the morning and rest our Selves a little.
The Clatsops proceeded on with their lodes
William Clark