[Lewis:]
Saturday April 26th. 1806.
This morning early we set forward and at the distance of
three miles entered a low level plain country of great extent.
here the river hills are low and receede a great distance from
the river this low country commenced on the S. side of the
river about 10 miles below our encampment of last evening.
these plains are covered with a variety of herbatious plants,
grass, and three speceis of shrubs specimines of which I have
preserved. at the distance of twelve miles we halted near a
few willows which afforded us a sufficient quantity of fuel to
cook our dinner which consisted of the ballance of the dogs we
had purchased yesterday evening and some jirked Elk. we
were overtaken today by several families of the natives who
were traveling up the river with a number of horses; they
continued with us much to our annoyance as the day was worm
the roads dusty and we could not prevent their horses from
crouding in and breaking our order of ma[r]ch without using
some acts of severity which we did not wish to commit. after
dinner we continued our march through the level plain near
the river 16 m
s. and encamped
[16]
about a mile below three
lodges of the Wollahwollah nation, and about 7 m
s. above our
encampment of the 19 of October last. after we encamped
a little Indian boy caught several chubbs with a bone in
this form
[ILLUSTRATION] which he substituted for a hook. these
fish were of about 9 inches long small head large
abdomen, small where the tail joined the body, the
tail wide long in proportion and forked, the back and ventral
fins were equadistant from the head and had each 10 bony
rays, the f[i]ns next the gills nine each and that near the
tail 12. the upper exceeded the under jaw, the latter is
truncate at the extremity and the tonge and pallet are smooth.
the colour is white on the sides and belley and a blewish brown
on the back. the iris of the eye is of a silvery colour and
puple black.
[17]
we covered ourselves partially this evening from
the rain by means of an old tent.
