[Clark:]
Monday June 23rd. 1806
Apprehensive from Drewyer & Shannons delay that they
had met with some difficuelty in precureing a guide, and also
that the two indians who had promised to wait two nights for
us would set out today, we thought it most adviseable to dispatch
Wizer & Frazier to them this morning with a view if
possible to detain them a day or two longer; and directed that
in the event of their not being able to detain the indians, that
Sergt. Gass, Jo. & R. Fields & Wiser should accompany the
indians by whatever rout they might take to travellers rest
and blaize the trees well as they proceeded, and wait at that
place untill our arival with the party. the hunters as usial
were dispatched early this morning. The does now haveing
their young the hunters can blait them up, and in that manner
kill them with more facillity and ease. the indians pursue the
game so much on horse back in this neighbourhood that it is
very shye. our hunters killed [blank space in MS.][22]
deer
today. at 4 P. M. Shannon Drewyer & Whitehouse returned.
Shannon & Drewyer brought with them three indians who had
consented to accompany us to the falls of the Missouri for
the Compensation of 2 guns. one of those men is the brother
of the cutnose and the other two are the Same who presented
Capt. L. and myself with a horse on a former occasion at the
Lodge of the broken arm, and the two who promised to pursue
us in nine nights after we left the river, or on the 19th. inst.
Those are all young men of good Charrector and much respected
by their nation. those men infor[med] us that th[e]ir
nation as well as the Wallar-wallars have made peace with the
Shoshones agreeable to our late advice to them. they also
inform us that they have heard by means of the Skeetsomis[h]
Nation & Clarks river that the Big bellies of Fort de Prarie
killed great numbers of the Shoshons and
Ottelashoots which
we met with last fall on the East fork of Lewis's river and
high up the West fork of Clarks river &
c.
We directed the horses to be brought near camp and secured
in such a manner that they may be readily obtained in
the morning being deturmined to make an early start if possible.
Colter one of our hunters did not return this evening.
