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Thursday 22nd August 1805. a white frost & cold as usal in the morning. our hunter returned late last night had killed a fawn deer and informed us that he fell among a praty of Indians which were troublesome as they took his gun & rode off he rode after them and got his gun from out of an Indians hand. their was several squaws which had considerable of their kinds of food and skins. we went and left it all he took it and brought it in with him. a clear pleasant morning three men ween to finishing hideing the baggage the men at camp employed drying their diir skins & makeing their mockasons unclear I am employed amkeing up their leather shirts & overalls. about 11 oclock am. one tribe of the Snake nation 50 odd in nomber arived here on horse back some women & children. they have now come over the dividing ridge to trade their horses with us. Capt. Lewis counciled with them made 2 of them chiefs and told them that we had come to open the way and try to make peace among the red people and that they would be supplying with goods and necisarries if they would catch beaver and other and save their skins which the white poeple were fond of