21^ 
JOURNAL. 
Sunday 1 1^-^. This w^s a fi clear morning ; and 
we lay hereuil d«v 1 lie n itives treat us very vv^/jl ; 
the OiHcers practice as physician^, imoiig their sic k, 
and they gave them a very handsome niare and colt. 
At>out 12 o'clock our hunter Cc^m* in and biougf»t 
two deer with him. We liow iiiid a great nit^ay 
more men among the Indians th ai when we went 
down last fall ; and several chieJs, which had thers 
been out at war. In the evening tne natives brought 
in six more of our liorses. 
Afj/iday \2th. We had another fine morning and 
remained here also to day. The nativ^js in the 
course of the day gave us four horses, one of which 
%ve killed to eat. We ai-so got bread made of roots, 
which the natives call Co- was. and sweet^ roots wlucln 
they call Com-mas. In the afternoon they brought 
three more of our old stock of horses.* 
* Tlie information yet acquired, furnishing but few cer- 
tain data? on which a correct general view ot" the country 
west of tlie Rocky Mountains could he founded, especially 
on the soutfi side of the Kooskooske, Lewis's river, and the 
Columbia after its coniiiience with that river, it woiild only 
be attempting" impostureio pretend to be able to give it. A 
few observations, however, may be of some use to such rea- 
ders, as have paid but little atteiition to the Geograpliy of 
our country, and prompt to further inr^uh^y. 
Between the Rocky Mountains, which running a north- 
west course, ai'e said to enter the North Sea in latitude 70^ 
hortlj, afid longitude 135° west from London or 60^ west 
from Philadelphia (about 11^ west of the mouth of the Co-' 
lumbia) and another range of high mountains, running iiearly 
in the same direction along the coast of the Pacific, there 
is a liirge tract of open country extending along the abovts 
r'ivers and to'vards tlie north, in breadtli from ekst to west 
350 or 400 miles ; but which, by Mr M'Kenzie's account, 
a!)pears to be contracted in the latitude of his rout near the 
53rd degree to the breadtli of stbout 200 railes, where the 
country is rough and covered with timber. Mr M'Kenzie 
represents some part of these mountains to be of an amazing 
height, witii their jBHX)\v -clad sutaniits lost in the cloudiiV De»- 
