User:Voltaire's Vaquero/Coalpo

Continuing up the Columbia, the party met the prominent Multnomah Chinookan noble Kiesno, a relative of Coalpo. Afterwards they passed the mouth of the Willamette River, an area described by the Clatsop as full of game and hide bearing animals. On 10 May, the party reached the rapids controlled by various Wasco and Wishram villages which included Celilo Falls. Coalpo would not go further than the borderlands of these people, informing MacKay that the Wishram and Wascoes if allowed to would kill him. This was due to a prior military campaign he commanded that destroyed a major settlement in the area. In particular Alexander Henry the younger later called the Clatsop an "inveterate enemy of the natives of the rapids". Content to see that the rumored NWC station wasn't at the important fishery, MacKay led the party back to Fort Astoria and arrived on the 14 May.