Friday 11th.. Oct. 1805.
a FAIR morning. we Set out eairly. two more
Indians with a Small canoe accompy. us. we proceeded
on passed over Some rapid water but the
current mostly gentle. about 8 oClock we came to a fishing
Camp & party of Indians, where we bought considerable
quantity of Sammon, and 8 or 10 fat dogs to eat. Some
dryed haws &c. Saw among them Some peace of fish net
which they must have come from white people. a tea kettle
made of copper Seen also &c. we proceeded on passed a
great nomber of fishing camps where the natives fish in the
Spring. the Stone piled up in roes So that in high water
the Sammon lay along the Side of the line of rocks while they
would gig them. the country is barron a high hills and clifts
of rocks on each Side of the River not even a tree to be
Seen no place. a fiew willows along the Shores Some places.
Some rapids in the River but Some of them roles high waves
but a large body of water. we roed 30 miles this day and
Camped at a fishing Camp of Indians on the S. Side where
we bought 3 or 4 more dogs and Some Sammon &c. one
Indian from an other nation came among them f[rom] falls
