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Documenting Lewis and Clark – 1805, The Westward Passage
 September
9-11: Traveler's Rest
September 9
Meriwether Lewis: we continued our rout down the W. side of the river about 5 miles further and encamped on a large creek which falls in on the West as our guide informes that we should leave the river at this place and the weather appearing settled and fair I determined to halt the next day rest our horses and take some scelestial Observations. we called this Creek Travellers rest.(Moulton, Vol. 5, p. 192)
September 10
Meriwether Lewis: . . . this evening one of our hunters returned accompanyed by three men of the Flathead nation whom he had met in his excurtion up travelers rest Creek. on first meeting him the Indians were allarmed and prepared for battle with their bows and arrows, but he soon relieved their fears by laying down his gun and advancing towards them. the Indians were mounted on very fine horses of which the Flatheads have a great abundance; that is, each man in the nation possesses from 20 to a hundred head.(Moulton, Vol. 5, p. 196)
September 11
Patrick Gass: This was a fine morning, and we went out to collect our horses, in order to renew our journey, and found all but one. . . .The mountains are not so high, as at some distance back. . . . We went about 6 miles and encamped; when our hunters came in but had killed nothing. The country is poor and mountainous.(Moulton, Vol. 10, p. 140)
John Ordway: . . . passed a large tree on which the natives had a number of Immages drawn on it with paint. a part of a white bear skin hund on Sd. tree. we came about 7 miles this evening and Camped on a narrow plain near where had been a large Camp of Indians a Short time past. Saw one lodge made of Earth. the pine trees pealed for some distance around. the natives eat the enside bark.(Moulton, Vol. 9, p. 222)
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