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"All Around The Village The Women Are Busily Employed In Gathering
And Dressing The Pasheco-Root, Of Which Large Quantities
Are Heaped In Piles Over The Plain.
We now felt severely
the consequence of eating heartily after our late privations.
Captain Lewis and two of the
Men were taken very ill last evening;
to-day he could hardly sit on his horse, while others were obliged
to be put on horseback, and some, from extreme weakness and pain,
were forced to lie down alongside of the road for some time.
At sunset we reached the island where the hunters had been
left on the 22d. They had been unsuccessful, having killed
only two deer since that time, and two of them were very sick.
A little below this island is a larger one on which we camped,
and administered Rush's pills to the sick."
The illness of the party continued for several days, and not much
progress was made down-stream. Having camped, on the twenty-seventh
of September, in the Kooskooskee River, at a place where plenty of good
timber was found, preparations for building five canoes were begun.
From this time to the fifth of October, all the men capable of labor
were employed in preparing the canoes. The health of the party
gradually recruited, though they still suffered severely from want
of food; and, as the hunters had but little success in procuring game,
they were obliged on the second to kill one of their horses.
Indians from different quarters frequently visited them, but all that
could be obtained from them was a little fish and some dried roots.
This diet was not only unnutritious, but in many cases it caused
dysentery and nausea.
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