Saturday (Monday) 23rd.. Septr 1805
We assembled the principal Men as well as the Chiefs and
by Signs informed them where we came from where bound our
wish to inculcate peace and good understanding between all the
red people &c. which appeared to Satisfy them much, we
then gave 2 other Medals to other Chefs of bands, a flag to
the twisted hare, left a flag & Handkerchief to the grand
Chief gave a Shirt to the Twisted hare & a knife & Handkerchief
with a Small pece of Tobacco to each. Finding that
those people gave no provisions to day we deturmined to purchase
with our Small articles of Merchindize, accord[ingly] we
purchased all we could, Such as roots dried, in bread, & in their
raw State, Berries of red Haws[57]
& Fish and in the evening Set
out and proceeded on to the 2d Village 2 miles distt. where we
also purchased a few articles all amounting to as much as our
weak horses could carry to the river, Capt. Lewis & 2 men
Verry Sick this evening, my hip Verry Painfull, the men
trade a few old tin Canisters for dressed Elk Skin to make
themselves Shirts. at dark a hard wind from the S W accompanied
with rain which lasted half an hour. The twisted hare
envited Capt. Lewis & myself to his lodge which was nothin[g]
more than Pine bushes & bark, and gave us Some broiled dried
Salmon to eate, great numbers about us all night, at this village
the women were busily employed in gathering and drying
the Pas-she-co root of which they had great quantities dug in
piles
