Clark: May 18, 1806

Sunday 18th May 1806 Cloudy morning 12 hunters turned out this morning in
different directions agreeably to the order of yesterday. Potts and
Whitehouse accompanied Collins to the bear which he had killed on the 16th
and brought in the flesh and Skin. this bear was not large but remarkably
light coloured the hair of it as also the hair of all those which has been
killed is very thick and long. The Squar wife to Shabono busied her Self
gathering the roots of the fenel Called by the Snake Indians Year-pah for
the purpose of drying to eate on the Rocky mountains. those roots are very
paliatiable either fresh rosted boiled or dried and are generally between
the Size of a quill and that of a mans fingar and about the length of the
latter. at 2 P.M. 3 Indians who had been out hunting towards the place we
met with the Chopunnish last fall, which place they Call the quarmash
grounds. those men had been out Several days and killed nothing. we gave
them a Small piece of meat which they told us they would reserve for their
Small Children who was very hungary. we Smoked with them and they
departed. The nativs made a lodge on the opposit bank of the river a
little above us at a fishing place. as all communication is cut off
between us and the nativs on the opposit Side of the river, we cannot Say
by whome or for what service that lodge has been errected as no one has
been near it Since it was errected this morning. at 3 P M Jo. Field
returned from the chase without killing any thing he complains of being
unwell. Son after an old man and a woman arived the man with Sore eyes,
and the woman with a gripeing and rhumatic effections. I gave the woman a
dose of creme of tarter and flour of Sulphur, and the man Some eye water.
a little before night Rueben Field Drewyer and LaPage returned haveing
killed nothing but a large hawk they had hunted in the point between the
Kooskooske and Collins’s Creek and Saw but little Sign of either deer or
Bear. the evening Cloudy, Soon after dark it began to rain and rained
moderately all night-. LaPage took a Salmon from an Eagle at a Short
distance below our Camp. this is induces us to believe that the Salmon is
in this river and most probably will be here in great numbers in the
Course of a fiew days.