We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.