suits of the party while shut up in camp for weary weeks
in the early summer of 1806:--

"After a cold, rainy night, during a greater part of
which we lay in the water, the weather became fair; we
then sent some men to a village above us, on the opposite
side, to purchase some roots. They carried with them for
this purpose a small collection of awls, knitting-pins, and
armbands, with which they obtained several bushels of the
root of cows, and some bread of the same material. They
were followed, too, by a train of invalids from the village,
who came to ask for our assistance. The men were gener-
ally afflicted with sore eyes; but the women had besides
this a variety of other disorders, chiefly rheumatic, a vio-
lent pain and weakness in the loins, which is a common
complaint among them; one of them seemed much de-
jected, and as we thought, from the account of her dis-
ease, hysterical. We gave her thirty drops of laudanum,
and after administering eye-water, rubbing the rheumatic
patients with volatile liniment, and giving cathartics to
others, they all thought themselves much relieved and
returned highly satisfied to the village. We were fortu-
nate enough to retake one of the horses on which we
[ Captain Lewis] had crossed the Rocky Mountains in the
autumn, and which had become almost wild since that
time."

A day or two later, the journal has this significant
entry: "On parcelling out the stores, the stock of each
man was found to be only one awl, and one knitting-pin,
half an ounce of vermilion, two needles, a few skeins of
thread, and about a yard of ribbon-- a slender means of
bartering for our subsistence; but the men have been so
much accustomed to privations that now neither the want
of meat nor the scanty funds of the party excites the least

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