Saturday April 26th 1806
This morning early we proceeded on and at the distance of
three miles entered a low leavel plain country of great extent.
here the river hills are low and receed a great distance from the
river this low country commenced on the South Side about
10 miles below our Encampment of the last night, those
plains are covered with a variety of herbatious plants, Grass
and 3 species of shrubs. at the distance of 12 miles halted
near some willows which afforded us a sufficent quantity of
fuel to cook our dinner which consisted of the ballance of the
dogs we had purchased yesterday evening and some jerked
Elk. we were overtaken to day by several families of the
nativs who' were traveling up the river with a Num
r. of horses;
they continued with us much to our ennoyance as the day was
worm the roads dusty and we could not prevent their horses
crouding in and breaking our order of March without useing
some acts of severity which we did not wish to commit. after
dinner we continued our march through a leavel plain near
the river 16 miles and encamped about a mile below 3 Lodges
of the fritened band of the Wallahwallah nation, and about
7 miles above our encampment of the 19
th. of Oct
r. last. after
we encamped a little Indian boy cought several chubbs with a
bone in this form
[ILLUSTRATION] which he substituted for a hook.
those fish were of about 9 inches long. we covered
our selves perfectly this evening from the rain by means of an
old tent. Saw a Goat and a small wolf at a distance to day.
made 28 miles.
