Clark: April 10, 1806

Thursday April 10th 1806 Collins went out in the bottom to hunt agreeable
to the order of last evening, and gibsons Crew was derected to delay for
Collins dureing which time they were derected to Collect rozin from the
pines in the bottom near our Camp at 6 A M. we Set out and proceeded to
the lower point of the Island from whence we were Compelled to draw our
Canoes up a rapid for about 1/4 mile which we Soon performed. Collins
& gibson haveing not yet Come over we derected Serjt. Pryor to delay
on the Island untill Gibson Came over & assist him with the large toe
roap which we also left and to join us at a village of four houses of the
Clah-lah-lar Tribe which is opposit to this Island on North Side at which
place we intened to brackfast. in crossing the River which at this place
is not more than 400 yards wide we fell down a great distance owing to the
rapidity of the Current. I entered one of the houses of those people and
was Scercely Seated before they offered me a Sheep Skin for Sale nothing
could be more acceptable except the Animal itself in examoning this Skin I
found it was a young one, the Skin of the head was Cased So as to fit the
head of a man and was esteemed as a great orniment and highly prised by
them. we precured this Cased head for a knife and, the Skin we were
obliged to give two Raw Elk Skins for. Soon after they offered a large one
for Sall. after finding us anxious to purchase they declined silling this
Skin. those people informed us that they killed those Animals among the
rocks in the mountains under which they live; and that great numbers of
those animals inhabit those mountains & that the lamb was killed out
of a gange of 36 at a Short distance from their village. The wool of the
full grown Sheep, or that on the Skin which we Saw was much Corser than
that of the one which we purchased, the Skin was about the Size of that of
a Common deer. The Skin we obtained appeared to be the Skin of a Sheep not
fully grown, the wool fine, the Horns were abought 4 inches long,
Celindric, Smooth, black, a little bending backwards and pointed; they
rise from the Middle of the foeheard, and a little above the eyes, and
appeared to possess all the marks of the Common Sheep as already
discribed. We could precure no provisions from those people except four
white Salmon trout. at 10 oClock Sergt. Pryor and Gibson joined us with
Collins who had killed 3 deer. these were all of the blacktailed fallow
kind. We Set out and Continued up on the N. Side of the river with great
dificuelty in Consequence of the Rapidity of the Current and the large
rocks which forms this Shore; the South Side of the river is impassable.

As we had but one Sufficent toe roap and were obliged to employ the Cord
in getting on our Canoes the greater part of the way we could only take
them one at a time which retarded our progress very much. by evening we
arived at the portage on the N. Side where we landed and Conveyed our
baggage to the top of the hill about 200 paces distant where we found a
Camp. we had the Canoes drawn on Shore and Secured. the Small Canoe got
loose from the hunters and went adrift with a tin cup & a tomahawk in
her; the Indians Caught her at the last Village and brought her up to us
this evening for which we gave them two knives; the Canoe overset and lost
the articles which were in her.-.