JOURNAL 
Some JK"^»^'^s v/ent out, as we saw some elk signs 
.^-jtr^Gi^md our meat is exhausted. We still have a 
goocl stock of roots, which we pound and make thick 
soup of, that eats very well. In the evening our 
hunters came in but had not killed any thing. On 
the south side of this ridge there is summer with 
grass and other herbage in abundance ; andjon the 
north side, winter with snow six or eight feet deep. 
Sunday 29 th. There was a foggy morning. We 
set cut early, proceeded over some bad hills, and 
eame to the old path ; at which time there was a 
shower of rain, with hail, thunder and lightening, 
that lasted about an hour. At 10 o'clock we left 
the snow, and in the evening we arrived at the warm 
spring ; where we encamped for the night, and most 
of us bathed in its water. One of our hunters killed 
& deer \diere we dined at the glades or plains on 
Glade creek ; and v/here there is good grass, and 
com-mas also grows. Tv/o other hunters v/ent 
ahead and killed another deer on the way. 
Monday 30th. We continued our march early and 
had a fine morning. When we were ready to set 
€)Ut, we saw a deer coming to a lick at the hot springs 
and one of our hunters shot it. Two hunters went 
on ahead. At noon another went oiit a short time, 
and killed a fine deer. We halted for dinner at the 
:same place, where Vv^e dined on the 12th of Sept. 
1805, as we passed over to the Western ocean. Af- 
ter dinner we proceeded on, and on our way found 
three deer that one of the bursters had killed and left 
^ for us. In the evenii^g Vv'e arrived at Travellers'-rest 
creek, where the party rested two days last fall, and 
where it empties into Flathead (called Clarke's) river, 
a beatniful river about one hundred yards wide at this 
place ; but there is no hsh of any consequence in it ; 
and/according to the Indian account, tiune are falls 
«n it, between this pkce find its mouth, where it 
empties into the Columbia, six or seven hundred feet 
