Clark: August 19, 1805

August 19th Monday 1805 A verry Cold morning Frost to be Seen we Set out
at 7 oClock and proceeded on thro a wide leavel Vallie the Chief Shew me
the place that a number of his nation was killed about 1 years past this
Vallie Continues 5 miles & then becoms narrow, the beaver has Darned
up the River in maney places we proceeded on up the main branch with a
gradial assent to the head and passed over a low mountain and Decended a
Steep Decent to a butifull Stream, passed over a Second hill of a verry
Steep assent & thro a hilley Countrey for 8 miles an Encamped on a
Small Stream the Indians with us we wer oblige to feedone man met
one with a mule & Spanish Saddle to ride, I gave him a wistoat a mule
is considered a of great value among those people we proceeded on over a
verry mountanious Countrey across the head of hollows & Springs