. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. \.:h V<. 912 ELALLAH OR DEER ISLAND. out of upward of a hundred which they had seen. They were the common fallpw-deer with long tails [Cariacus virgin- tanus macrurusl and
. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. \.:h V<. 912 ELALLAH OR DEER ISLAND. out of upward of a hundred which they had seen. They were the common fallpw-deer with long tails [Cariacus virgin- tanus macrurusl and though very poor are better than the b, fallow-deer of the coast iC, ], from v/hich they materially. Soon after our arrival the weather became fair, and we therefore immediately hauled the boats on shore, and having dried them by means of large fires put on the pitch. We also took this opportunity of dry- ing our baggage; and as some of the hunters had not yet re- turned, ,t was deemed advisable to pass the night at our pres- ent camp. This island, which has received from the Indians the appropriate name of Elalah [Elallah], or Deer island IS surrounded on the water-side by an abundant growth of Cottonwood, ash, and willow, while the interior consists chiefly of prairies interspersed witn ponds. These afford refuge to great numbers of geese, ducks, large swan \CyFnns buccinator\ sandhill cranes, a few canvas-backed ducks iAris- tonetta valltsncria\ and particularly (/. 3u) the duckinmal- iard \Anas boscas\ the most abundant of all. There are also great numbers of snakes " resembling our garter-snakes in appearance, and like them not poisonons. Our hunters brought m three deer, a goose, some ducks, an eagle, and a tiger-cat iLynx rnfus fasciatus]. Such is the extreme vor- acity of the vultures {_Pseudogryphus californianns\ that thev had devoured in the space of a few hours four of the deer killed this morning; and one [J. Fields] of our men de
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