Crossword-Solution: ASTORIANS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Even the old Astorians, used to this sort of weather and not disliking it, having little to do in the winter time, and being always braced up by sea-airs that even this fresh-water flood could not divest of their tonic flavor--these old sea-dogs, pilots, fishermen, and other _amphibia_, were constrained at last to give utterance to mild growls at the persistent character of the storm.

Unfortunately, Thompson's claim ignored the fact that both Lewis and Clark and the Astorians had already passed this way on their overland route to the Pacific.

Had this story been known at Astoria when Thompson arrived, he would have found the Astorians in a thoroughly dejected condition.

Here they had been marooned on the Columbia for three months without a ship, waiting for the contingent of the Astorians who were toiling across the continent.[2] Not thus did Nor'westers conduct expeditions.

Among their emissaries went the men of New Caledonia, Alexander Henry (the younger) of Rocky Mountain House, Donald M'Tavish, and a dozen others who were former comrades of the leading Astorians.