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Show ).;cwis ltnd Clw·l~e's Expetlilion men and childt·en. They now set before them a small piece of buffaloc meatt some d1·ied salmon, berries. and se~ vera] kinds of roots. Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten eithet• in its natm·al state, or boiled into a. kind of soup ot• made into a. cake, which is then called ]>asheco. After the long abstinence this was a sumptuous tr·eat; we returned the kindness of the people by a few small presents, and then went on in company with one of the chiefs to a second village in the same plain~ at the distance of two miles. llcrc the ])~u·ty was treated with gt·eat kindness and passed the night. 'l'he Jmnters were sent out, but though they saw some tracks of deer we1·c not able to procure any thing. We wet·e detained tiJl ten o'clock IJefote we could col~ lect our scattered hoJ'l'es; we then ])roeeeded for two miles, when to our great joy we found the horse which captain Clarke had killed, and a note apprising us or his intention of going to the plains towar·ds the south west, and collect JH'Ovisions by the time we J·eached him. At one o'cloek we halted on a small stt•eam, and made a hearty meal of horse flesh. On examinanou it now appcar·ed that one of the horses was missing, and the man in whose charge he had been, was dh·ectcd to return and ~ c~u·ch fol' him. He came back in about two bom·s without having been ahlc to Jiml the horse; but as the load was too valua.lJlc to be lost, two of the best wooodsmcn were dja·ected to continue the search while we p1·oceeded. Om· general course was south 25° WCSt tht·ough a thick f(H'est o( 1a1•ge pine, Which has fallen in many places, and vc1·y mucb obsh·ucts the road. After making about fifteen miles we encamped on a ridge where we could finfl but little grass and no water. We succeeded, however, in procuring a little from a distance, and supped on the remainde1· of the horse. On descending the heights of the mountains the soil becomes gradually more fertile, and the land through ~·hicb Up the .Missotwi. we passed this evE-ning, is of an excellent quality. It has a dark gray soil, though very broken, and with large masses of gray ft·ee-stone above the ground in many places. Among the vc~etable productions we distinguished the alder, honeysuckle, and hucl\.lebcrry, common in the United Stah·s, and a species of boucysucldc, lmown only westwa1·tl of the Rooky mountains, which t•ises to the height of about four feet, and bcar·s a white bcny. There is also a plant resembling the clw]\.cchCJ·ry, which grows in thick clumps eight or ten feet l1igh, and bears a black hcr•~y with a sin~le stone of a sweetish taste. The arbor ,,it re too, is vct·y common, and gt·ows to a g1·eat size, being ft·om two to six feet in diameter. Satm·day 21. The l'rce u~e of food, to which he had not been a~customed, made captain Clarke very sick both yesterday evening and dm·ing the whole of to-day. He therefore sent out all the huntet•s and remained himself at the viJiagc, as well on account of his sickness as for the purpose of avoiding suspicion and collecting information from tbe Indians as to the route. The two villages consist of about thirty tlouble tents, and the inhabitants call themselvc (;hopunnish or Piercednose. 'l.'he chief tlt·ew a chart of the river, and exph~oined, that a greatct• chit>f than himself, who govet•ned this village and was called the 'rwisted-lmir·, was now :fishin~ at the distance of ball' a clay's ride down the t·iver: his chart made the Kooskooskre fork a Little below his eam]), a second fork below, still furt h(•r on a large branch flowed in on eacb side, below which 1 he rive•· passed the mountains: here was a great fall of water, ncas· whi('h liv( d white people, from whom wer·e lH·ocus·td the whit(' Lwads and brass ornaments worn by the womc~. A chief of another band madt~ a visit this morning, and smoked with captain t;Jar•kc. 'l'he huutt•&·s retUl·ned without having been ahle to kill any thing; t'Hl;tain Clarke purchased as much dried salmon, roots and berries as he could. .. |