The country is low, open, and marshy, interspersed with some high pine and thick undergrowth. Five miles from the creek we came to a stream forty yards wide at low water which we called Chinook River. The hills up this river and toward the bay are not high, but very thickly covered with large pine of several species. In many places pine trees, three to four feet in thickness, are seen growing on the bodies of large trees which, though fallen and covered with moss, were solid. Here we dined on some brant and plover, and a buzzard killed near a whale we saw that measured from the tips of the wings across nine feet.

After crossing the stream in a boat, we proceeded along a bluff of yellow clay and soft stone to a little bay or harbor into which a drainage from some ponds empties. At this harbor the land is low but as we went on it rose to hills of eighty or ninety feet above the water. At the distance of one mile is a second bay and a mile beyond it a small rocky island in a deep bend. This seems to afford a very good harbor where the natives inform us European vessels anchor for the purpose of trading.

We went on around another bay in which is a second small island of rocks and crossed a small stream which rises in a pond near the seacoast and empties into the bay after running through a small isthmus. This narrow low ground about 200 or 300 yards wide separates a peninsula from the main hills, the end of this is two miles from the anchoring place. This spot was named Cape Disappointment and is an elevated circular knob rising with a steep ascent 150 or 160 feet above the water. It is formed like the whole shore of the bay and covered with thick timber on the inner side but open and grassy in the exposure next to the sea.