Clark: June 25, 1806

Wednesday June 25th 1806 last evening the indians entertained us with
Setting the fir trees on fire. they have a great number of dry limbs near
their bodies which when Set on fire create a very Sudden and eminence
blaize from bottom to top of those tail trees. they are a boutifull object
in this Situation at night. this exhibition remide me of a display of
firewoks. the nativs told us that their object in Setting those trees on
fire was to bring fair weather for our journey-. We Collected our horses
and Set out at an early hour this morning. one of our guides Complained of
being unwell, a Symptom which I did not much like as such complaints with
an indian is generally the prelude to his abandoning any enterprize with
which he is not well pleased. we left 4 of those indians at our encampment
they promised to pursue us in a fiew hours. at 11 A.M. we arrived at the
branch of hungary Creek where we found Jo. & R. Fields. they had not
killed anything. here we halted and dined and our guides overtook us. at
this place the squaw Collected a parcel of roots of which the Shoshones
Eat. it is a Small knob root a good deel in flavour and Consistency like
the Jerusolem artichoke. it has two Small Smooth oval leaves placed
opposit on either Side of the peduncle just above the root. the scope is
only about 4 inches long is round and Smooth. the roots of this plant
forms one of the Colection of roots which D-. took from the Shoshones last
fall on the head of Jefferson river. after dinner we continued our rout to
hungary creek and encamped about one and a half miles below our Encampment
of the 16th inst.The indians all continue with us and I beleive are
disposed to be faithfull to their engagements. Capt. L. gave the Sick
indian a Small buffalow robe which he brought from the Missouri, this
indian having no other Covering except his mockersons and a dressed Elk
Skin without the hair-. Drewyer & Shields were sent on this morning to
hungary Creek in serch of their horses which they fortunately recovered.-came
____ miles to daye.