Friday 25th.. Oct. 1805.
a clear morning. we carrd Some of our baggage about a
mile, which took us below the worst of the rapids, then took
one canoe down the rapids and narrows where the whole
channel is confined in a narrow channel only about 25 yards
wide. one of the canoes nearly fi[lled] running through the
rapids waves & whorl pools. we got all the canoes down and
loaded them. we have bought a large quantity about 16
common bags of pounded Sammon Some white bread cramberies
&c. about 3 oClock we Set out and proceeded on
down the narrows which lasted abt. 2 miles verry rapid 2
Small Islands of Solid rocks Stood in the channel one of the
canoes ran hir bow aggainst the point and glanced off, without
Injury. the water or River between these narrows and the
falls, rises at high water 48 feet perpinticular by its being confined
by the different narrows. a little [below] or at the lower
end of the narrows we Saw a war party of Indians, with
horses. they had deer & bear meat with them the head
chief had on a jacket that was made of Some kind of worked
Splits which would defend off the arrows. our Capts. gave him
a meddle, and he gave our Cap
ts. Some bears oil and a fresh
Sammon our 2 chiefs came to us and told us that their was
a nation below that which had a design to kill them and us
So they left us in order to return to their own village again.
we then proceeded on about eight miles the hils high Some
pine and oak timb
r. to be Seen the River got Smooth. we
Camp
d. on a high point of rocks little below the mouth of a
creek on the Lar
d. Side. timbered country back from the
River [on] each Side. Saw drumm fish jump in Riv
r.
