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Show Lewis and Cla1•ke's Expeditio·n brought higher than the next fol'ks we sl10uld meet; but that if the J'aJ>id water pt'evcntcd tht' boats from coming on as fast as they expected, his brother chief was to send a note to (be first fork~ above him to let him know where the boats were; that this note had been left this morning at the forks, and mentioned that the canoes were just below the moun. tains, and coming slowly up in C'Onsrquence of the current. Captain Lewis added. that he would stay at t]w for·ks for his brolher chief, but would send a man down the river, and that if Cameahwait doubted what he said, one of then· young men would go with him whilst he and the other two remained at the forks. This sto•·y satisfied the chief and the greater part of the Indians, but a few did not conceal thdr suspicions, observing that we told difl(o•·ent stories, ancl complaining tltat tlac chief C'XposC'd them to danger by a mis1 aken eonfidence. t;aptain Lewis now wrote by the light of some willow brush a note to captain Uhu·ke, which he gave to Dt·ewyer, with an order to usc all possible expedi· tion iu a cending the river, and eugaged an Indian to accompany him by a pt'omise of a knilc and some beads. At bedtime the chief and five others slept •·ound the fit·e of captain Lewis. and the r·est hid the mselvcs in differ·ent parti of the willow brush to :1void the enemy, who they feared would attack them in t he night. Captain Lewis t-ndeavourcd to a ·sume a cheerfulrwss lte did not feel to prevent the dcspondmwy of the savag<'s: affeL' conversing gayly with them h(.• 1 etit·ed to his mu~quitoe bie•·, by the side of which the C'hicf now placed himst>ll': he lay do\\ u, yet slept but little, being in fact scarcrly lcE~s uneasy than his Indian companions. He was appr('hcnsive Haat finding the ascent of the l'ivet· impr·a<.'titahle, eaptain (.;Jat•ke might have stopped below the U.attlesnakc bluft~ ami the messengeL' would not IDt>et him. The consequence of disappointinoo the Indians at } . 0 t us moment would most probably be, that they would re-tire and sect·ete themselYes in the mountains, so as to preYcnt our ha.viug an opportunity of recovering their confi- Up the .Missom·i. 379 dence: 1hcy would also spread a panic through all ihe neighbouring Indians, and cut us off ft·om the sullply of horses so useful and almost so c•ssPnt ial to our success: he was at the same time consolcd hy •·cnwmheJ•ing that his hopes of assistance rested on IH'HCI' foundation-, than their g('nerosity-tlteir avarice, and theh· {~m· i os ity. He had pl'Omised liberal exchanges for their hot·scs; lmt what was still more seductive, he had told them that OtH' of tiH•ia· countr·y. women who hatl hecn taken with th<' 1\-linnetarees accompanied lhe party below; and one of the men h<\d spread. tile re}>ort or our having with us a man perfectly black, whose hair was short and cul'led. 'l'his lase act·ount had excited a g•·eat dt·g•·ec of curiosity, and they seemed more desit·ous of seeing this monste1· than of olJtaining the most favouJ·alJle barter fot• their horses. In the meantime we had set out after breakfast, and although we proceeded with more ease than we did ycste1•day, the river was still so t•a.pid and shaJlow as to oblige us to drag the la1·ge canoes during the gt·eater pa1·t of the clay. For the fi1·st se\ en miles the river f<H'rned a bend to the right so as to make our· advance only three miles in a stt·aight line; the stt·cam is crooked, narl'ow, small, and shallow, with highlands occasionally on the uanlis, and strewed with islands. four of which a1•e opposite to e.'leh othC'r. Near this place we left the valley, to which we gave the name ofServiceber ·ry valley, from the abuudam·c of that ft·uit now ripe which is found in it. In the course of the four· following miles we passed sevet'aJ nHn·e i slamls and bayous on each side of the river, and reached a ltigb cliff on tbc rigl1t. '"rwo and a half miles beyond this the cliffs appr·oach on both sides and fo1·m a very considcr·able rapid neat• the entrance of a bold running st rl'am on the left. 'rhc water· was now excessively cold, and the r·apids had been f1·equcut and troublesome. On a~ccuding an eminence captain t;laJ·ke saw the forks of the river and sent the hunters up. They must have left it only a short time beiore captain Lewis's arrival, |