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[Clark, second draft:]

Sunday 20th.. April 1806

a very cold morning the Western mountains covered with
snow I shewed the Eneshers the articles I had to give for
their horses. they without hezitation informed me that they
would not sell me any for the articles I had, if I would give
them Kittles they would let me have horses, and not without
that their horses were at a long ways off in the planes and they
would not send for them &c. My offer was a blue robe, a

calleco Shirt, a Silk handkerchief, 5 parcels of paint, a knife, a
Wampom moon, 8 yards of ribon, several pieces of Brass,
a Mockerson awl and 6 braces of yellow beeds; and to that
amount for each horse which is more than double what we
gave either the Sohsohne or first flatheads we met with on
Clarks river I also offered my large blue blanket, my coat
sword & plume none of which seamed to entice those people
to sell their horses. notwithstanding every exertion not a
single horse could be precured of those people in the course
of the day. Those people are much better clad than they
were last fall, their men have generally legins mockersons and
large robes. maney of them ware shirts of the same form of
those of the Chopunnish and Shoshone highly ornimented with
porcupine quills. the dress of their wimen differs verry little
from those above the great rapids. their children have small
robes of the squirel skins. those of the men & women are
principally deer, some elk, wolf, Ibix & buffalow which they
precure from distant nations who purchase their Pounded fish
in exchange for those robes & Beeds. The principal village
of the Enesher nation is imediately below the falls on the
N. Side. one other village of the same nation above the falls
on the opposit side and one other a few miles above on the
North Side. The Houses of those people like the Skillutes
have the flores of their summer dwelling on the surface of the
earth in sted of those sellers in which they resided when we
passed them last fall. those houses are covered with mats and
straw are large and contain several families each. I counted 19
at this village & 11 on the opposit side. those people are
pore durty haughty. they burn straw and small willows.
have but little to eate and deer with what they have. they
precure the silk grass of which they make their nets, the
bear grass for makeing their mats and several other necessary
[articles] of the Indians of the following nations who trade
with them as also the Skillutes for their pounded fish. Viz.
Skad-dats, Squan-nun-os, Shan-wap-poms, Shall-lat-tos, who
reside to the north and several bands who reside on the
Columbia above. I precured a sketch of the Columbia and
its branches of those people in which they made the river which
falls into the Columbia imediately above the falls on the South
Side to branch out into 3 branches one of which they make
head in Mt. Jefferson, one in mount Hood and the other in
the S W. range of mountains, and does not water that extensive
country we have heretofore calculated on. a great portion
of the Columbia and Lewis's river and betwen the same and
the waters of Callifornia must be watered by the Multnomah
river. See Sketch in the latter part of this book Those people
are great jokers and deciptfull in trade. at sunset finding that
Capt Lewis would not arrive this evening as I expected, I
packed up all the articles which I had exposed, at a situation I
had pitched on to Encamp, and at which place we had bought
as maney fishing poles as made a fire to cook a dog which I
had purchased for the men to eate, and returned to the lodge
which I had slept in last night. great number gathered around
me to smoke, I gave them two pipes, and then lay my self
down with the men to sleep, haveing our merchendize under our
heads and guns &c in our arms, as we always have in similar
situations.