30th.
October Tuesday 1804—
Two chiefs came to have Some talk
one the princapal of the
lower Village the other the one who thought
himself the principal
man, & requested to
hear Some of the Speech that was
Delivered yesterday they were gratified,
and we put the medal
on the neck of the Big white to whome we had Sent
Clothes
yesterday & a flag, those men did not return from hunting
in time to join the Councell, they were well pleased (2d. of
those is a Chien) I took 8 men in a Small perogue
and went
up the river as fur as the 1st Island about 7
miles to see if a
Situation could be got on it for our Winter quarters,
found
the wood on the Isd. as also on the pt. above so Distant from
the water that, I did not think
that we could get a good
wintering ground there, and as all the white men
here informed
us that wood was scerce, as well as game above, we
Deturmined
to drop down a fiew miles near wood and game
Course to the
Island
| N. 12°. W. |
3 |
Ml. to a Bluff 30 feet high above the point of wood.
S.S. |
| N. 20°. W |
2 |
Mls. to a tree under the bank about 20 feet high S. S.
butifull plain |
| N. 30°. W. |
1
1/2 |
Mls. to a pt-of the Same
Bluff 30 feet high under which
there was coal S.
S. |
| N. 45°. W. |
1 1/2 |
Mls. to the Lower point of an Island Current on the
L. S.
this Isd. abt. 1 mile
long. |
|
7 |
|
on my return found maney Inds. at our Camp, gave the
party a dram, they Danced as is verry Comn. in the
evening
which pleased the Savages much. Wind S. E.
