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at some distance back. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon 
the horse >yas found, and we proceeded on up the, 
creek nearly a west course, through small bottoms. 
We went about 6 miies and encamped; when our 
hunters came in but had killed nolhihg. The coun- 
try is poor and mountainous. 
Thursday \2t/2. We started early cn our journey 
sand had a fine morning. Haviiig lravt:lkd 2 miles 
vre reached the mountuiiis which are very steep ; 
but the road over them pretty good, as it is much 
travelled by the natives, who come across to t!ie 
Flathead river to leather cherries and berries. Our 
hunters in a short time killed 4 deer. At noon we 
halted at a branch of the creek, on the banks of which 
are a number of strawberrv vines, haws, and service 
berry buslies. At 2 we proceeded cn over a large 
mountain, where there is no water, and wc could hnd 
no place to encamp until late at night, when v/e ar- 
rived at a small branch, and encamped by ii, ia a 
very inconvenient place, having come 23 miles. 
Friday \3th. A cloudy m.orning. Capt. Lewis's 
horse cou4d not be found; but some cf the men were 
left to hunt for him and we proceeded on. When we 
had gone 2 miles, we came to a m.ost beautiful warm 
spring, the water of which is considerably above 
blood-heat; and I could not bear my hand in it with- 
out uneasiness. There are so many paths leading to 
and from this spring, that our guide took a vrrong 
one for a mile or two, and wo had bad travelling across 
till we got into^he road again. At noon we halted. 
Game is scarce ; and our hunters killed nothing 
since yesterday morning ; though 4 of the best v/erc 
constantly out, and every one of them furnished with 
a good horse. .While we ren^.i.ined here, Captain 
Lewis and the men, who had been left with him, 
came up; but had not found the horse. At 2 o'clock 
v/e proceeded on again over a mountain, and in our 
way found a deer, which our hunters bad killed 
