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Octr. 10th. 1805 Thursday.
Set out at 7 oClock
South | 1 | mile passed a bad rapid at the head of an Isd. on Ld. Side |
S. 20°. W. | 1 ½ | miles to a Ld bend, passed a Isd. on Ld Side. rapid at the head bad. passed Lower pt. of the other [island] at the mouth of a run on Stard. |
West | ½ | to a Std bend passed a small Isd. Ld Side and a rapid |
S. 30°. W. | 3 | miles to a Ld bend passed a creek coming [in] on the Ld Side at ½ a mile on which is cotton wood bottoms Inds camp below the Creek |
West | 2 | miles to the head of an Isd at a bad rapid on both side current on the right side |
S. 30°. W. | 4 | mile pd. a rapid at Lower point of Isd & rapid at 1 mile, a rapid at 1 ½ miles rockey bottoms on each side a rapid at 2 ½ miles a run & (Indn camp) on Stard Side at 3 miles a rapid at 3 ½ miles to a Lard bend, low plain 100 ft |
West | 2 | mile to a Stard bend, (passed an Indian bathing in hot bath) rapid an Island on the L. S. shole waters at the head opsd. to which a verry bad rapid we call ragid rapid one canoe struck & lodged sprung a Leak onload Passed several Inds camps on the Island. Took meridian altitude on the Island with Sextent made it 74°. 26′ Latd. 46°. 29′ 21″ 7/10 North |
S. W. | 1 | mile to a bend on the St Side psd a rapid |
South | 1 | mile to the L. bend passed 2 rapids a large bottom on each side |
S. 80°. W. | 3 | miles to the mouth of a Large fork caled by the Inds. Ki-moo-e-nen[69] passed 2 rapids Isd in mouth |
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West | 1 | mile to a Std bend psd a shole in the mouth. Wind high which obliged us to stop. Kimooenem has two forks on the South Side, & camps of Inds all the way up 2d fork called Pâr-nash-te about 50 miles camped on Std Side to make observations. |
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a verry worm day, Indians continue all day on the banks to
view us as low as the forks. Two Indians come up in a canoe
who means to accompany us to the Great rapids, Could get
no observations, worm night. The water of the South fork
is of a bluish green colour
[69]
As understood by the Nez Percé of to-day, the name Kimooenim—or Kah-móo-enim,
as it is given to me—is applied, strictly speaking, to the South Fork of the
Lewis or Snake River, although it is sometimes used for the entire stream. The junction
of the Kooskooskee and Lewis rivers is called (according to Stuart) Asotin—a
name also applied to a lateral stream of the Lewis River, and to a town and county in
Washington.—O. D. Wheeler.
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