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which was verry steep descent for about three miles than assended another as bad as any we have ever been up before it made the sweat run off of our horses & ourselves on the top the ground was froze a little and the ground mostly covred with snow. the spruce pine & bolsam timber continues on these motn. as usal some places thick bushes. we desc'd. the mot. down in a narrow valley where we found a run of water and halted to bate our horses and drink a little portable soup. one of the men killed a fessent. their is not any kind of game or sign of any to be seen in these mout. scarsely any birds itself we delayed about 2 hours and proceeded on descended the mountain about 4 miles came to a creek running about east we followed up the creek a bad pease of the road. some places along side of the mountn which is high & steep on each side of the creek. one of our horses fell backward and roled about 100 feet down where it was nearly steep and a solid rock & dashed against the rock in the creek with a load of ammunition but the powder being in canisters did not get damaged nor the horse killed but hurt we proceeded on came about 17 miles this day and camped at a run in unclear mount. our course this day was generally west. the timber continues as usal we suped a little portable soup. the most of the party is weak and pitible suffering with hunger our horses feet are gitting sore and full away in these mountains but we are in hopes to get out of them soon Friday 20th Sept. 1805. a cold frosty morning we eat a fiew peas & a little gruel which was the verry last kind of eatables of any kind we had except a little portable soup we got up our horses except one which detained us untill about 8 oclock before we found him we then load up our horses and set out proceeded on up the creek a short distance and found a line which Capt Clark had left with the meat of a horse which they found and killed they had killed nothing after they left us