& inhabit the country on each side of the Multnomar from its falls as far up as the knowledge of those people extend."
This map made by the old Indian and reproduced in Thwaite's edition of Lewis and Clark, shows the mouth of the Clackamas forty miles above the mouth of the Willamette, and the falls of the Willamette twenty miles above the mouth of the Clackamas.
(Ordway's Journal) Wednesday, 2nd of April, 1806:
* * * the natives informed our officers that their is a large River comes in on the South Side Some distance below quick sand River which we had not Seen So Capt. Clark & 6 men Set out with a canoe to go and examine the sd River, took an Indian along for a guide.
Thursday 3rd of April, 1806:
* * * in the evening Capt Clark & party returnd to Camp and informed us that they had been and took a view of the River which the Indians informed us of and that it is a verry large River & is 500 yd wide and is supposed to head with the waters of the California, they went 7 miles up sd River, their guide informed them that a large nation lived up the fork of this River by the name of Clackamus Nation of 30 towns, and that another Nation lives along distance up this River where it gits small by the name of Callap-no-wah Nation who are verry numerous."
From the Journal of Patrick Gass we glean the following:
"Friday April 4, 1806. * * * * Captain Clarke got information that a large river came in on the south side of the Columbia, about 40 miles below this place, opposite a large island, which had concealed it from our view; and went down with six men to view it. He found it to be a very large river, 500 yards wide, with several nations of Indians living on it; and its source supposed to be near the headwaters of some of the rivers which fall into the gulph of California."
