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Show J,ewis a1td Olar/;e·s Expedition plain, in which he fortunateJy found a horse, on which he breakfasted, and hung the rest un a tree fo1• the party in the rea1·. 1.'wo miles beyond this he left the creek, and crossed three high mountains, rendc•·ed almost impassable from the steepness of the aseent and the quantity of fallen timber. After clambering over these ridges and mountains, and passing the heads of some h1·anches of Hungl'y creek, he came to a large c1·cek running westward. This be followed for four miles, then turned to the right down the mountain, till he came to a smaJJ et·eek to the left. Here he halted, having made twenty-two miles on his course, south eighty degrees west~ though the winding route over the mountains atmust doubled the distance. On descending the last mountain, the heat became much mot'e sensiiJJe after the extrrnae cold he had experienced for sever·al days past. Besides the breakfast in the morning, two pheasants were their only food dUI·ing the day, nnd the only kinds of birds they saw were the blue jay, a small -white-headed hawk, a larger hawk, crows, and •·avens. We followed soon after sum·ise. At six miles tho ridge terminated and we had before us the cheering prospect of the large plain to the southwest. On leaving the l'idge we again ascended and went down sev01·al mountains, and six miles further came to Hungry creek where it was fifteen yards wide, and t·eceivcd the waters of a bt·anch ft·om the north. We went up it on a cour·sc umu·ly due west, and at three miles crossed a second hl'anch flowing fl'om the same quarter. 'l'he count1·y is thickly covet·ed with pine timbet·, of' which we have cnumel'ated eight distjnct species. Three miles beyond this last branch of' Hungry creek we eooamped, after a fatiguing route of eighteen miles. The road aloug the c1·eck is a narl'OW t·ocky path near the borders of very high J>recipices, from which a fall seems almost inevitable destruc.tion. One of our horses slipped and rolling ever with his load down the hill side, which was nearly perpendi~ular and strewed with large lrregulal' Up the a~llissotu•i. 4,5S rocks, nearly a hundJ·ed ya1·ds, and did not stop till he fell into the et•eek: we all expected he was ldlled, but to ou1• astonishment, on taking oft' his load, he rose, and seemed but little injur·ed, and in twenty minutes proceeded with his load. Ilaviug no othe1• provision we took some portable soup, our only refPcshmcnt du1·ing the day. This abstinence, joincd with fatigue, bas a visible effect on our health. 'l'hc men are g1·owiog weak and Josing theil· flesh very fast: seveJ•al aa·e afflicted with the dysentery, and erruptions of the skin are ver·y common. Friday ~0. Captain CJarke went on th1·ough a country as ruggrd as usual, till on passing a low mountain he came at the distance of fou1· miles to the forks of a large creek. Down this he kept on a. cou1·se south 60° west for two miles, tuen turning to the right, continued over a dividing r·i.Jge wbct•e were the heads of several little streams, and at twelve miles distance descended the last of t.he rocl~y mountains and reached the level couutry. A IJcautiful oven I•laiu pa1·tialJy supplied with 1•inc now presented itself. He continued fvr Jive miles when he discovet·ed three Indian boys, who, on ob~e•·ving the party, ran off and hid themselves in the grass. Captain Cla1•kc immediately alighted, and giving his ho•·sc and gun to one of the men went ai'ter the boys. He soon relieved their apprehensions and sent them forward to the vilJage aiJout a mile off witll p•·esents or small pieces or riband. Soon af'tet• the boys hatlrl·acl.ted home, a man came out to meet the 1mrty, with g•·eat caution, but he conducted them to a large tent in the village. and all the inl.au.bitants gathered •·ouud to Yiew witll a .mixture of fear antl plcasut·c tlJ.csc wonderful stl'angers. rrtu.· cunductOl' DOW informed captain Clarke IJy signs, that the stmcious tent was the residence of the great chief, who Jmd set out tha·ce days ago with all the wal'l'ioa·s to attack some of thdr en~mit·s towards the southwest; that be would not .~eturn before Hl'teen oa· eighteen days, and that in the moantime there were only a few men left to guard the wo- • |