JOURNAL; 
spent It Vviili the Indians, and got dog$, fish, shap-a- 
leei and roots from them. At 10 o'clock we began to 
take our horses over the river at this place, as we can 
Jessen our journey considerably by crossing : Wc 
l)brrowed canoes from the natives, and swam the 
horses along side, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon 
had them all landed safe, after a good deal of trouble* 
From this place we can discover a range of mountains, 
covered with snow, in a southeast direction and about 
fifty rhiles distant. In the evening the weather was 
cloudy, and it thundered4 and threatened rain, a few 
drops of which fell. We remained here all night, 
and about dark above and hundred of the natives 
'came down from the forks to see us. They joined 
vAth those at this place and performed a great dance. 
We were a very interesting sight to the surrounding 
crowd, as nine-tenths of them had never before seen a 
ivhite man. 
Tuesday 29th, The natives remained about our 
camp all night ; and we bought some dogs and a 
horse from them. The day was fair, and we got 
all our baggage transported to the south side of the 
river. Here are a great many of the natives encamp- 
ed on a large creek, which comes in from the south? 
and those on the north side are moving over as fast as 
they can. We encamped on the creek, and got three 
horses, some dogs, shap-a-leel, some roots called 
com-mas and other small roots, which were good to 
€at and nourishing. 
Wed?iesday oOl/i. This was a cloudy morning, and we 
stayed here till about 1 i o'clock to collect oui^horses, 
got two more ; and have now altogether twenty-three 
horses. We then set out from Wal-ia-wal-la river 
and nation ; pa^oceedecl on about fourteen miles 
through a^ extensive plain, when we struck a branch 
of the Wal-la-wal-la river, snd halted for the night* 
V/e saw no animals or birds of any kind, except two 
pheasantsj one of which Capt. Clarke Idlled. Thi^ 
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