Clark: June 23, 1806

Monday June 23rd 1806 Apprehensive from Drewyer & Shannons delay that
they had met with Some dif icuelty in precureing a guide, and also that
the two indians who had promised to wait two nights for us would Set out
today, we thought it most adviseable to dispatch Wizer & Frazier to
them this morning with a view if possible to detain them a day or two
longer; and directed that in the event of their not being able to detain
the indians, that Sergt. Gass, Jo. & R. Field & Wiser Should
accompany the Indians by whatever rout they might take to travellers rest
and blaize the trees well as they proceeded, and wait at that place untill
our arival with the party. the hunters as usial were dispatched early this
morning. The does now haveing their young the hunters can blait them up,
and in that manner kill them with more facillity and ease. the indians
pursue the game So much on horse back in this neighbourhood that it is
very Shye. our hunters killed ____ deer today. at 4 P.M. Shannon Drewyer
& Whitehouse returned. Shannon & Drewyer brought with them three
indians who had consented to accompany us to the falls of the Missouri for
the Compensation of 2 guns. one of those men is the brother of the Cutnose
and the other two are the Same who presented Capt L. and myself with a
horse on a former occasion at the Lodge of the broken arm, and the two who
promised to pursue us in nine nights after we left the river, or on the
19th inst. Those are all young men of good Charrector and much respected
by their nation. those men infor us that thir nation as well as the
Wallar-wallars have made peace with the Shoshones agreeable to our late
advice to them. they also inform us that they have heard by means of the
Skeetsomis Nation & Clarks river that the Big bellies of Fort de
Prarie Killed great numbers of the Shoshons and Otte lee Shoots which we
met with last fall on the East fork of Lewis’s river and high up the West
fork of Clarks river &c.

We directed the horses to be brought near Camp and secured in Such a
manner that they may be readily obtained in the morning being deturmined
to make an early Start if possible-.Colter one of our hunters did
not return this evening