Clark: May 19, 1806

Monday 19th May 1806 Rained this morning untill 8 oClock when it Cleared
off and became fair-. we Sent Shabono, Thomson, Potts, Hall & Wizer
over to the Villages above to purchase Some roots to eate with our pore
bear meat, for which purchase we gave them a fiew Awls, Knitting pins,
& arm bans and directed them to proceed up on this Side of the river
opposit to the Village and Cross in the Cano which we are informed is at
that place. Sent Jo. & Reuben Field up the river a Short distance
after the horse which Capt. Lewis rode over the mountains last fall, which
horse was Seen yesterday with a gangue of Indian horses, and is Very
wild-. about 11 oClock 4 men and 8 Women Came to our Camp with Thompson
who went to the Village very early this morning. those Men applyed for Eye
water and the Women had a Variety of Complaints tho the most general
Complaint was the Rhumitism, pains in the back and the Sore eyes, they
also brought fowd. a very young Child whome they Said had been very Sick-.
I administered eye water to all, two of the women I gave a carthartic, one
whose Spirets were very low and much hipedz I gave 30 drops of Lodomem,
and to the others I had their backs hips legs thighs & arms well rubed
with Volitile leniment all of those pore people thought themselves much
benifited by what had been done for them, and at 3 P.M. they all returned
to their Villages well satisfied. at 5 P.M. Potts, Shabono &c.
returned from the Village with about 6 bushels of the root the nativs Call
Cowse and Some bread of the Same root. Rubin & Jos. Fields returned
with the horse Capt. Lewis rode across the rocky mountains we had this
horse imedeately Cut with 2 others which we had not before thought proper
to Castrate. we amused ourselves about an hour this after noon looking at
the men run their horses, Several of them would be thought Swift horses in
the atlantic States. a little after dark John Shields and Gibson returned
haveing killed nothing. they Saw Some deer but Saw no bear.