September 10th.. Tuesday 1805.
A fair morning Concluded to Delay to day and make
Some observations, as at this place the rout which we are to
prosue will pass up the Travelers rest Creek, The day proved
fair and we took equal altitudes & some luner observations.
The Latd 46° – 48′ – 28″ as the guide report[s] that no game
is to be found on our rout for a long ways, ads an addition
to the cause of our delay to precure Some meat, despatched
all our hunters in different directions, to hunt the
Deer which is the only large game to be found they killed
4 deer a Beaver & 3 Grouse which was divided, one of the
hunters Colter, met with 3 flatheads [Tushapaw] Indians who
were in pursuit of 2 Snake Indians that hade taken from ther
Camps on the Columbia [head of Kooskooske] River 21 horses,
Those Indians came with Colter to our Camp & informed by
Signs of their misfortune & the rout to their villages &c. &c.
one of them Concluded to return with us. I (we) gave them
a ring fish hook & tied a pece of ribin in the hare of each,
which appeared to please them verry much, Cap Lewis gave
them a Steel & a little Powder to make fire, after eating 2 of
them proceeded on in pursute of their horses. men all much
engaged preparing mockersons &c. &c. The Countrey about
this place is already described in that above.
