Clark: September 10, 1805

September 10th Tuesday 1805 A fair morning Concluded to Delay to day and
make Some observations, as at this place the rout which we are to prosue
will pass up the Travelers rest Creek, The day proved fair and we took
equal altitudes & Some Inner observations. The Latd. 46° 48′ 28″ as
the guide report that no game is to be found on our rout for a long ways,
ads an addition to the cause of our delay to precure Some meat, despatched
all our hunters in different directions, to hunt the Deer which is the
only large game to be found they killed 4 deer a Beaver & 3 Grouse
which was divided, one of the hunters Colter, met with 3 Tushapaw Indians
who were in pursuit of 2 Snake Indians that bade taken from ther Camps on
the head of Kooskooske River 21 horses, Those Indians came with Colter to
our Camp & informed by Signs of their misfortune & the rout to
ther villages &c. &c. one of them Concluded to return with us. we
gave them a ring fish hook & tied a pece of ribin in the hare of each
which appeared to please them verry much, Cap Lewis gave them a Steel
& a little Powder to make fire, after eating 2 of them proceeded on in
pursute of their horses. men all much engaged preparing mockersons &c.
&c. The Countrey about this place is already described in that above.