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are standing erect and the weather calm ; but in alif 
other position, or when the wind blows, their charms 
liave but a precarious defence. 
A number of both sexes keep about our camp ; 
some have robes made of musk rat skins sewecT 
together, and I saw some of loon-skins. Their diet 
is chiefiy fish and roots. 
. MEMORANDUM 
Of the computed distance in miles to the furthest 
.point of discovery on the Pacific ocean, from the 
place where the canoes were deposited near the 
head of the Missouri, which from its mouth 
is 2096 
From place of deposit to head spring - 24 
To first fork of the Sho-sho-ne rivet * 14 
To first large fork down the river - - . 
To forks of the road at mouth of Tour creek 14 
To fishing creek, after leaving the river - 23 
To Flathead, or Clarke's river at Fish camp 41- 
To the mouth of Travellers-rest creek - 7& 
To the foot of the great range of Mountains, 
east side - - - - 12 
To ' ditto ditto ditto 
west side - - - - - 13^' 
To the Flathead village in a plain - - 3 
To'tlie Koos-kooS'ke river - - - 18 
To the Canoe camp, at the forks * - 6 
/ To the EJ-moo-ee-nem - - - - 60 
To the Great Columbia, by Lewis's river - 14® 
To^ the mouth of the Sho-sho-ne, or Snake river 1 62 
To the Great Falls of Columbia - - 6 
To the Short Narrows • ^ - S 
To the Long ditto - - - ^- S 
To the mouth of Catarack river, north side 23 
To the Grund Shoot, or Rapids - 42 
To the Last Rapids, or Strawberry island 6 
the mouth of Quicksaixi rUxv, south sid^ ^ 
