Wednesday June 4th. 1806.
about noon The 3 Cheifs left us and returned to their vilages.
while they were with us we repeated the promises we
had formerly made them and invited them to the Missouri with
us, they declined going untill the latter end of the summer
and said it was there intention to spend the ensuing winter on
the East side of the Rocky mountains. they gave us no positive
answer to a request which we made, that two or three of
their young men should accompany me to the falls of the
Missouri and there wait my return from the upper part of
Maria's river where it was probable I should meet with some
of the bands of the Minnetares from Fort de Prarie, that in
such case I should indeavor to bring about a good understanding
between those indians and themselves, which when effected
they would be informed of it th[r]ough the young men thus
sent with me, and that on the contrary should I not be fortunate
enough to meet with these people nor to prevail on
them to be at peace they would equally be informed through
those young men, and they might still remain on their guard
with rispect to them untill the whites had it in their power to
give them more effectual relief. The Broken Arm invited us
to his village and said he wished to speak to us before we set
out, and that he had some roots to give us tor our journey
over the mountains; Cap
t. C. promised to visit him as he
wished the day after tomorrow. Sheilds returned this evening
from the quawmash grounds with 2 deer which he had
killed.
