APPENDIX. 
1811, for the Pacific ocean, reached the Ankara village on the 
13th day of June, where meeting with some American hunters 
who had been the preceding year on the waters of the Columbia 
with Mr. Henry, and who, giving such an account of the route 
by which they passed, as being far preferable in point of procur¬ 
ing with facility an abundant supply of food at all tithes, as well 
as avoiding even the probability of seeing their enemies the 
Black Feet, than by the track of captains Lewis 8c Clark; the 
gentlemen of the expedition at once abandoned their former 
ideas of passing by the falls of the Missouri, and made the ne¬ 
cessary arrangements for commencing their journey over land 
from this place; 
Eighty horses were purchased and equipped by the 17th of 
July, and on the day following they departed from the Arikaras, 
60 persons in number, all on foot except the partners of the 
company. In this situation they proceeded for five days, hav¬ 
ing crossed in that time two considerable streams which joined 
the Missouri below the Arikaras, when finding air' inland tribe 
of Indians calling themselves Shawhays, but known among the 
whites by the appellations of Chiennes, we procured from 
these people an accession of 40 horses, Which enabled the gen¬ 
tlemen to furnish a horse for every two men. Steering about 
W. S. W. they passed the small branches of Big river, the Lit¬ 
tle Missouri above its forks, and several of the tributary streams 
of Powder river, one of which they followed up, they found a 
band of the Absaroka or Crow nation, encamped on its banks, 
at the foot of the Big Horn mountain. 
For ammunition and some small articles, they exchanged all 
their lame for sound horses with these savages ; but although 
that this band has been allowed by every one who knew them, 
to be by far the best behaved of their tribe, it was only by that 
unalterable determination of the gentlemen to avoid jeopardiz¬ 
ing the safety of the party without at the same moment submit¬ 
ting to intentional insults, that they left this camp (not possess¬ 
ing a greater force than the whites) without coming to blows. 
The distance from the ^Arikaras to this mountain, is about 
450 miles over an extremely rugged tract, by no means furnish¬ 
ing a sufficient supply of water; but during the 28 days they 
