That's a fail amount of scrap iron. Within that area you're at on November 15, 1805 here's a little of what was going back then 218 years before you were there.
November 15th Friday 1805
Rained all the last night at intervales of Sometimes of 2 hours, This morning it became Calm & fair, I prepared to Set out at which time the wind sprung up from the S. E. and blew down the River & in a fiew minits raised Such Swells and waves brakeing on the Rocks at the point as to render it unsafe to proceed. I went to the point in an empty canoe and found it would be dangerous to proceed even in an empty
Canoe The Sun Shown untill 1 oClock p. m. which gave an oppertunity for us to dry Some of our bedding, & examine our baggage, the greater Part of which I found wet Some of our Pounded fish Spoiled I had all the arms put in order & amunition examined.
The rainey weather Continued without a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time from the 5th in the morng. untill the 16th is
eleven days rain, and the most disagreeable time I have experienced Confined on a tempiest Coast wet, where I can neither get out to hunt, return to a better Situation, or proceed on: in this Situation have we been for Six days past.— fortunately the wind lay about 3 oClock we loaded I in great haste and Set out passed the blustering Point
[1] below which is a Sand beech, with a Small marshey bottom for 3 miles on the Stard. Side, on which is a large village of 36 houses deserted by the Inds. & in full possession of the flees, a Small Creek fall in at this village, which waters the Country for a few miles back;
Shannon & 5 Indians met me here,
Shannon informed me he met
Capt. Lewis Some distance below & he took
Willard with him & Sent him to meet me, the Inds with him wer rogues, they had the night before Stold both his and
Willards guns from under their heads,
Capt. Lewis & party arrived at the Camp of those Indians at So Timely a period that the Inds. were allarmed & delivered up the guns &c. The tide meeting of me and the emence Swells from the main Ocean (imedeately in front of us) raised to Such a hite that I conluded to form a Camp on the highest Spot I could find in the marshey bottom,
[2] and proceed no further by water as the Coaste becomes verry [dangerous] for Crafts of the Size of our Canoes—and as the Ocian is imedeately in front and gives us an extensive view of it from
Cape disapointment to
Point addams,
[3] 〈except 3 small Islands off the mouth and West of us.〉 my Situation is in the upper part of
Haley Bay S. 86° W. [
blank] miles Course five 〈from〉 to
Cape Disapt. and S. 35° W. Course [
blank] miles from
point Addams
The River here at its mouth from
Point addams to the enterance of
Haley Bay above is [
blank] Miles or thereabouts, a large Isd. the lower point of which is immediately in the mouth above
[4]
4 Indians in a Canoe Came down with
papto roots to Sell, for which they asked, blankets or robes, both of which we could not Spare I informed those Indians all of which understood Some English that if they Stole our guns &c the men would Certainly Shute them, I treated them with great distance, & the Sentinal which was over our Baggage allarmed them verry much, they all Promised not to take any thing, and if any thing was taken by the Squars & bad boys to return them &c. the waves became very high Evening fare & pleasent, our men all Comfortable in the 〈Huts〉 Camps they have made of the boards they found at the Town above
