The Party
Tarried Here Long Enough To Secure From The Indians A Tolerably Correct
Description Of The River Upon Which They Were About To Embark.
One Of The Chiefs Drew Upon The Skin-Side Of A Buffalo Robe A Sketch Of
The Columbia.
And this was transferred to paper and put into the journal.
That volume adds here:
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"Having completed the purposes of our stay, we now began to lay in
our stores. Fish being out of season, we purchased forty dogs, for which we
gave small articles, such as bells, thimbles, knitting-needles, brass wire,
and a few beads, an exchange with which they all seemed perfectly satisfied.
These dogs, with six prairie-cocks killed this morning, formed a plentiful
supply for the present. We here left our guide and the two young men
who had accompanied him, two of the three being unwilling to go any further,
and the third being of no use, as he was not acquainted with the river below.
We therefore took no Indians but our two chiefs, and resumed our journey
in the presence of many of the Sokulks, who came to witness our departure.
The morning was cool and fair, and the wind from the southeast."
They now began again to meet Indians who had never before seen white men.
On the nineteenth, says the journal: -
"The great chief, with two of his inferior chiefs and a third
belonging to a band on the river below, made us a visit at
a very early hour.
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