[Clark:]
August 19th Monday 1805.
A verry Cold morning Frost to be seen we Set out at
7 oClock and proceeded on thro a wide leavel Vallie the
Chief shew[ed] me the place that a number of his nation was
killed about 1 years past this Vallie (wheel Vallie) Continues
5 miles & then becoms narrow, the beaver has Damed up
the River in maney places we proceeded on up the main
branch with a gradial assent to the head and passed over a low
mountain and Decended a Steep Decent to a butifull Stream,
passed over a Second hill of a verry Steep assent & thro a
hilley Countrey for 8 miles an[d] Encamped on a Small Stream,
the Indians with us we wer oblige[d] to feed. one man met
me with a mule & Spanish Saddle to ride, I gave him a westcoat
a mule is considered a of great value among those people
we proceeded on over a verry mountainous Countrey across
the head of hollows & Springs.
