August 29th. Thursday 1805
a Cold morning Some frost. the Wind from the South, I
left our baggage in possession of 2 men and proceeded on up
to join Capt Lewis at the upper Village of Snake Indians
where I arrived at 1 oClock found him much engaged in
Councelling[4]
and attempting to purchase a fiew more horses.
I Spoke to the Indians on various Subjects endeavoring to
impress on theire minds the advantage it would be to them for
to sell us horses and expedite the [our] journey the nearest and
best way possibly that we might return as soon as possible
and winter with them at Some place where there was plenty of
buffalow, our wish is to get a horse for each man to carry
our baggage and for Some of the men to ride occasionally,
The horses are handsom and much acustomed to be changed
as to their Parsture, we cannot calculate on their carrying
large loads & feed on the Grass which we may calculate on
finding in the Mountain thro' which we may expect to pass on
our rout Made Some Selestial observations, the Latd. of this
part the Columbia River is [blank space in MS.] North.
Longtd [blank space in MS.] W.
I purchased a horse for which I gave my Pistol 100 Balls
Powder & a Knife. our hunters Killed 2 Deer near their
Camp to day 2 yesterday & 3 the day before, this meet was
a great treat to me as I had eate none for 8 days past
