[Clark:]
Friday June 13th. 1806.
Ordered Rubin Fields and Willard to proceed on to a small
prarie in the Mountains about 8 miles and there hunt untill
we arrive the[y] set out at 10 A. M. Soon after they set out
all of our hunters returned each with a deer except Shields who
brought two in all 8 deer. Labeech and P. Crusatt went out
this morning killed a deer & reported that the buzzds. had
eate up the deer in their absence after haveing butchered and
hung it up. The indian who visited us yesterday exchanged
his horse with one of our party for a very indiferant one in
which exchange he r[e]cived a small ax a Knife &c. Soon after
he had exchanged he returned to his village well satisfied, we
caused the meat to be cut thin and dried in the sun. I make
a list of the Indian Nations their place of residence, and probable
number of Soles of each nation from estimation and indian
information &
c.
