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Documenting Lewis and Clark – 1805, The Westward Passage
 September
4-5: With The Salish At Ross's Hole
September 4
William Clark: a verry cold morning every thing wet and frosed, we detained untill 8 oClock to thaw the covering for the baggage &c. &c. groun covered with Snow, we assended a mountain & took a Divideing ridge which we kept for Several Miles & fell on the head of a Creek which appeared to run the Course I wished to go, . . . prosued our Course down the Creek to the forks about 5 miles where we met a part of the Tushepau nation of 33 Lodges about 80 men 400 Total and at least 500 horses, those people recved us friendly, threw white robes over our Sholders & Smoked in the pipes of peace, we Encamped with them & found them friendly but nothing but berries to eate a part of which they gave us, those Indians are well dressed with Skin Shirts & robes, they Stout & light complected more So than Common for Indians, The Chiefs harangued untill late at night, Smoked our pipe and appeared Satisfied. I was the first white man who ever wer on the watrs of this river.(Moulton, Vol. 5, p. 187)
September 5
Joseph Whitehouse: these Savages has the Strangest language of any we have ever Seen. they to us to have an Empeddiment in their Speech or a brogue or bur on their tongue but they are the likelyest and honestst Savages we have ever yet Seen.(Moulton, Vol. 11, p. 301)
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