The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-30
DIR. ELLIOTT COUEs.
The Famous Ornithologist Now
Visiting Puget Sound.
Az OVERLAND HORSEBACK TRIP.
Tsselne tks Rcessssps Of Lswfs snd
Clarke, the Expisrers. whose Mar
rHsfse Hs IL PusIishtsg.

fSTuG0D. m9&3EE sNGtS kM E@NsS Uts4s -
eissnce acquasnssBce. The face and Gen,
ersl bearing eas that Of man N easy
circumstances. He wore an ordinary
sbusiness siit. /" aud blue felt travshng
cap. His face Was . trffls heavy IN il
features. and he wore full beard, which
though nov nearly graz, vas once evil
IDENTITY brown. The fnaa was Dr.. Elliott
Coues, IL the Smithsonian institute,
Washington City. the great scientist he
was really born n is4z. though he does
rot look 20 be over 81 After an introdue-
flon ne accorded 20 request for an iater-
view. preferred by . Posz-isTEILsGEscEs
reporter, and led the way to his rooms.
The reporter. after little preliminary talk
about the doctors ride Of coo miles through
the mountains with Mrs. coues. asked she
occasion OF Dr. Cones visit to the Pacific
coast.
said the doctor in reply: '.Abou. year
ago had the good fortune 20 come across
the entire manuscripts report Of Lewis and
Clarke. chs first explorers OF the North
west. / republished the original book
made up from these reports by Nicholas
Bsddle, OF Philadelphia With the manu-
script report before me- aud the results OF
almost csntnry's discoveries in mineral
history and ethnology at my disposal
annotated and made additions 20 the text
until | had made hook twice the
size Of the original report. | had
some weeks Of leisure snd started TO come
west along the route OF the expedition to
see how faithfully my work had been done
through what knowledge / had of the
Indian tribes and the animals Of the coun-
try. The result has been extremely graft
flying. as find that have been remarka-
bly, accurate. IFeeeived the frst sheets oil
the edition De iuze on my way out. These
are they" said the doctor. taking from
low shelf under the table number OF
loose. unse.ed folds OF leaves OF gcneF-
ous-sized volume, one Of four. THE edi-
ton OF 1914 has been reproduced with the
original writings made during the
explorations OF is8f-5-8. All the maps
and plans of this national epic of explora-
ton have been reproduced and the identi-
ties of the localities, beasts. birds, fishes
and Indian tribes have been established.
One Of these reproductions IL letter from
Lewis ! found Ia the state department at
Washington City. resigning captaincy in
the United States army 10 receive the gov
ernorship Of Louisiana, which then in-
between tbs Spanish and British bound
aries.
Were Lewis and Clarke men who were
discriminating in their observations and
Ia full sympathy with their work ?"
Entirely 30. Lewis was the scion Of an
illustrious Virginia family, one OF the f.
r. VS.. In fact He was Jefferson's pri-
vate secretary. who. when appointed to
the work. associated with himself Will
lam Clarke, friend. also yirginian.
Jefferson's purchase Of Louisiana from
Napoleon vas ratified in Paris on the 10th
Of July. 1908. and preparations for the ex-
petition were set on foot at once. These
arrangements took year. The route of
the expedition was ~ the Missouri and
Jefferson rivers 10 . point At the junction
of the Red Rock creek and Horse Prairie
creek: thence passing the Continental
divide 10 went west via Lemhi pass
and the Continental divide; thence
IL went beyond Salmon City in
Idaho. across tho Bitter Root range
by an old Indian trail TO tho valley
of the Bitter Root. They ira relied through
this 10 the mouth of the Lo Lo fork, up
which they went and then across the Bit
ter Root ranges OF Idaho 10 Clearwater.
near the junction of Its North fork. There
they built canoes and went down the
Clearwater to It's junction with the Snake.
down the Snake 20 the Columbia. and
down the Columbia to the Pacific. Near
tho south bank OF the Colum.
bia they camped for the winter
and in the following March they started
90 retarn, navigating the Columbia TO The
Dalies, and proceeding on horseback along
che north bank of the Columbia so the
present site of wallnla. where they crossed
the Columbia and continued overland past
the present site Of Lewiston 60 place on
the Upper Clearwater river. Here they
cafnped one month until the Bitter Roo,
mountains should melt their snow and
render the passage Of these mountain.
possible. They reach ed tho north of the
Lo To fork again on July s. Iso6. There
the expedition divided into two. Lewis
aud nine men vent past the present site OF
Missouls up the Big Black Fork river
and across the continental divide at what
is now known rs Ferris and Ciarke's pass.
Connecting with certain headwaters al
the middle fork of the Dearborn river.
they came thence via Salmon river 20 their
old camp at White Bear islands. Jus,
above the great falls Of the Missouri
Leaving some Of his men here. he pro-
eewsied with three men 60 explore MAFia's
river nearly 90 Its sources lie struck the
Missouri again near Fort Benton.
Meanwhile Capt. Clarke. starting from
the same point with the rest Of the expe.
dition. consisting of fifty men and Que
woman and child. proceeded zap the Bit
ter Root valley up the East fork to Ross
Hole and thence via Camp creek over tbs
Continental divide into the Big Hole and
via the present site Of Bannock
20 the camp al the head Of the JEFF
ferson. where the expedition had
been the year before. lie proceeded down
the jefferson 90 the three FORKS. an the
Galiatsn BY the way of Boxeman and Rln.
mans creek 20 the Yellowssone river
which he struck At the present site of Law.
iaFssene. lie followed down the north
hank Of the Yellowstone To a poip,
near the mouth OF the Saltwater
river. where he bailt canoes. nayi.
gazing IL TO its mouth. and Vas
coon Joined by Capt. Lewis de.
tsehrens st that point on the Missouri
somewhat below the mouth OF the Iatt,e
knifs river. The expedition had then. 70
united. continued down the Missouri and
reached 81 Louis on the sSd II September
.sssS. having been absent since the lata Of
May. fse&'
What acre tho results Of the expeii.
slea. dossorf"
The results can hardly give you anv
better thau they are sivea in the d~l.ca-
ton of my .lsook. said be. opening the
sheets ~ this point. IL read:
''A'eatcation. To the People of the