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Monday 19th11 May 1806

Rained this morning untill 8 oClock when it cleared off and
became fair. We sent Shabono, Thomson, Potts, Hall &
Wizer over to the Villages above to purchase some roots to
eate with our pore bear meat, for which purchase we gave them
a fiew awls, knitting pins, & arm ban[d]s and directed them
to proceed up on this side of the river opposit to the Village
and cross in the cano[e] which we are informed is at that place.
sent Jo. & Reuben Field up the river a short distance after
the horse which Capt. Lewis rode over the mountains last fall,

which horse was seen yesterday with a gangue of Indian horses,
and is very wild. about 11 oClock 4 men and 8 women came
to our camp with Thompson who went to the Village very
early this morning. those men applyed for Eye water and the
Women had a variety of Complaints tho' the most general
complaint was the Rhumitism, pains in the back and the sore
eyes, they also brought fowd. a very young Child whome they
said had been very sick. I administered eye water to all, two
of the women I gave a carthartic, one whose spirets were very
low and much hiped[9] I gave 30 drops of Lodomem, and to
the others I had their backs hips legs thighs & arms well rubed
with Volitile leniment all of those pore people thought themselves
much benifited by what had been done for them, and at
3 P. M. they all returned to their Villages well satisfied. at
5 P. M. Potts, Shabono &c. returned from the Village with
about 6 bushels of the root the nativs call cowse and some
bread of the same root. Rubin & Jos. Fields returned with
the horse Capt. Lewis rode across the rocky mountains we
had this horse imediately cut with 2 others which we had not
before thought proper to castrate. we amused ourselves about
an hour this after noon looking at the men run their horses,
several of them would be thought swift horses in the atlantic
states. a little after dark John Shields and Gibson returned
haveing killed nothing. they saw some deer but saw no bear.