Clark: June 4, 1806

Wednesday June 4th 1806 about noon the 3 chiefs left us and returned to
their villages. While they were with us we repeeted the promisces we had
formerly made them and envited them to the Missouri with us, they declined
going untill the latter end of the Summer, and Said it was their intintion
to Spend the insiewing winter on the East Side of the Rocky Mountains,
they gave us no positive answer to a request which we made, that two or
three of their young men Should accompany Capt L. to the falls of Missouri
and there wait his return from the upper part of Maria’s river where it
was probable he Should meet with Some of the bands of the Blakfoot Indians
and Minitarres of Fort dePrarie, that in Such Case Capt L. would indeavor
to bring about a good understanding between those indians and themselves,
which when effected they would be informed of it through the young men
thus Sent with him. and that on the contrary Should he not be fortunate
enough to meet with those people, nor to provaile on them to be at peace
they would equally be informed through those young men, and they might
Still remain on their guard with respect to them, untill the Whites had it
more in their Power to give them more effectual relief. I also urged the
necessaty of Sending one or two of their Considerate men to accompany me
by way of the Shoshonees on the head of Jeffersons river and about the
three forks of the Missouri which whome there is most probably Some of the
Chiefs of those bands of Shoshones with whome they are at war, and by
which means a message Sent to that nation & good understanding brought
about between the Shoshones and the Chopunnish Nations which appears to be
the wish of both Nations. The Broken Arm envited us to his Village and
Said he wished to Speak to us before we Set out, and that he had Some
roots to give us for our journey over the mountains; I promised to visit
him as he wished the day after tomorrow-. Shields returned this evining
from the Quawmash grounds with two Deer which he had killed