In memoriamSergeant Charles FloydReport of the Floyd Memorial Association . s till October16, when they reached the Columbia itself. No foot of white man had ever be-fore been set on the mountains they had thus passed—no canoe of white manhad ever cleft the Columbian current above tide-water. Sweeping on rapidlythey reached the great falls of the Columbia; they glided through the Dalles;they were soon on tide-water, and on the 7th of November the Pacific oceanburst upon their view. Hugging the north shore, and at one place barely escaping shipwreck,they kept on till, on the 14th of November, C
In memoriamSergeant Charles FloydReport of the Floyd Memorial Association . s till October16, when they reached the Columbia itself. No foot of white man had ever be-fore been set on the mountains they had thus passed—no canoe of white manhad ever cleft the Columbian current above tide-water. Sweeping on rapidlythey reached the great falls of the Columbia; they glided through the Dalles;they were soon on tide-water, and on the 7th of November the Pacific oceanburst upon their view. Hugging the north shore, and at one place barely escaping shipwreck,they kept on till, on the 14th of November, Capt. Lewis stood upon the shoreof the ocean at Cape Disappointment. Then after a few days, during whichCapt. Clark pushed explorations along the coast, the expedition ascendedthe Columbia to a place where it was narrow enough to be crossed in theirfrail boats, passed to the south side and came clown to the mouth of a littlestream they called the Netul, up which, about three miles, they found a goodi i for winter quarters. They built a fort, which they called Fort Clat-. Prof. Elliotl Coin sop and prepared to pass a dismal winter. My this time they were of courseout of provisions; bul they managed to live by shooting elk, and trading what odds anil ends they possessed with the Indians for lish and root- 48 REPORT OF THE FLOYD MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. They had expected to find here some trading vessel, and it had beenintended that some of the party should come home by way of Cape Horn orthe Cape of Good Hope, perhaps. But no vessel came that year; and so, onSunday, March 23, 1806, they abandoned Fort Clatsop and set their faces torecross the continent. They ascended the Columbia to the falls in boats,and thence went on horseback to the mouth of the Walla Walla , striking across country, they reached the Kooskooskee at the pres-ent site of Lewiston, Idaho. They kept up this river to near the place nowknown as Kamai, and there settled down in Camp Chopunnish on May 14for
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