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natives caught a nomber of fine Trout which would weigh abt. 8 pound Some call them Salmon Trout. Others call them real? Salmon but they are not So red as the large Salmon. the Indian women are mostly employed gathering a kind of Small black seed not so large as unclearwheat which they dry and pound or rub between 2 Stone and make a Sort of meal of it they also dry cherries and Servis berryes & roots &c&c for food. they kill but fiew deer or any wild game except when they go down on the Missoarie after the buffaloe the country in general is barron broken and mountainious. an Indian came in with a horse load of deer meat which our hunters killd our hunters all returned towards evening had killed 4 deer & 8 or 10 fine Salmon which they killed with a wooden gig Capt. Lewis has bought 7 or 8 horses this day for a little of different kinds of merchandize &c. but they seem loth to part with any more without asking more for them. Some of them play away what ever they git for their horses. at a game nearly like playing butten only they keep Singing all the while and do all by motions more or less play at this game & loose or win more less they care not