[Clark:]
Tuesday April 15th. 1806
We delayed this morning untill after brackfast in order to
purchase some horses of the Indians; accordingly we exposed
some articles in exchange for horses the nativs were unwilling
to exchange their horses, we put up our Merchandize
and at 8 A M. set out, we halted a fiew minits at the Sepulchar
rock and examined the deposit of the dead at that place.
those were constructed in the same manner of those already
described below the rapids. Some of them were more than
half filled with dead bodies. there was 13 Supulchers on this
rock which stands near the center of the river, and has a cerface
of about two acres above the water. from here we returned
to the Northern Shore and continued up it about 4
miles to a village at the enterance of Cateract river, here we
halted and informed the nativs of our wish to purchase horses;
the[y] produced several for sale but would not take the articles
we had in exchange for them. they wanted an instriment
which the North W[est] Traders call an eye dag which we
had not. we precured two dogs and departed we also halted
at the two villages of the Chilluckkitequaws a fiew m
s. above
with no better Sucksess. at 3 in the evening we arrived at the
enterance of Quinnett Creek which we assended a short distance
and Encamped at the place we had called rock fort camp,
here we were visited by some of the people from the villages
at the long narrows & Falls. we informed them of our wish
to purchase horses, and agreed to meet them on the opposit
or north side on tomorrow for the purpose of bartering with
them. most of them returned to their village this evening
three only remained with us all night. those people are much
better clad than the nativs below. their men have generaly
Legins Mockersons & large robes. maney of them were
[wear] shirts of the same form of those of the Chopunnish &
Shoshonees highly ornamented with the quils of the purcupine,
as are also their mockersons & Legins. they conseal the
parts of generation with the skins of the Fox or some other
small animal drawn under neath a girdle and hanging loosely
in front of them like a narrow apron. The dress of their
women differ verry little from those about the rapids. both
men & women cut their hair in the forehead which comes
down as low as the eyebrows, they have long ear locks cut
square at the end. The other parts of their hair is dressed in
the same manner as those of the rapids. after we landed and
formed our camp this evening Drewyer and some others took
a hunt and killed a Deer of the lo[n]g tailed kind. it was a
Buck and the young Deer horns had shot forth about two
inches made [blank space in MS.] miles to day.
