[Lewis:]
Saturday June 7th. 1806
THE two young Cheifs who visited [us] last evening returned
to their village on Cammeâp C. with some others
of the natives. Sergt. Gass, McNeal, Whitehouse and
Goodrich accompanyed them with a view to procure some pack
or lash ropes in exchange for parts of an old sain [seine], fish
giggs, peices of old iron, old files and some bullets. they were
also directed to procure some bags for the purpose of containing
our roots & bread. in the eveing they all returned
except Whitehouse and Goodrich who remained all night.
they procured a few strings but no bags. Hohâstillpilp passed
the river to day and brought over a horse which he gave
Frazier one of our party who had previously made him a
present of a pair of Canadian shoes or shoe-packs. Drewyer
set out on a hunting excurtion up Collins's Creek this evening.
we wished to leave the deer in the neighbourhood of the
quawmash plains undisturbed untill the 10th. when we intend
removing thither to lay in some meat for our voyage over the
Mountains. our party are much engaged in preparing their
saddles arranging their loads provisions &c. for our departure.
There is a species of cherry which grows in this neighbourhood
in sitations like the Choke cherry or near the little rivulets and
water cou[r]ses. it seldom grows in clumps or from the same
cluster of roots as the choke cherry dose. the stem is simple
branching reather diffuse stem the cortex is of a redish dark
brown and reather smooth. the leaf is of the ordinary texture
and colour of those of most cherries, it is petiolate, a long
oval 1-1/4 inches in length and 1/2 inch in width, obtuse, margin
so finely serrate that it is scarcely perseptable & smooth.
the peduncle is common 1 inch in length, branch[ed], proceeding
from the extremities as well as the sides of the
branches, celindric gradually tapering; the secondary peduncles
are about 1/2 inch in length scattered tho' proceeding more
from the extremity of the common peduncle and are each
furnished with a small bracted. the parts of fructification are
much like those discribed of the choke cherry except that the
petals are reather longer as is the calix reather deeper. the
cherry appears to be half grown, the stone is begining to be
hard and is in shape somewhat like that of the plumb; it
appears that when ripe it would be as large as the Kentish
cherry, which indeed the growth of the bush somewhat resembles;
it rises about 6 or 8 feet high
