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with the natives for horses. our officiers bought twelve horses and gave a small quantity of marchandize for each horse. we swapped 7 horses which wwere lame &x. gave some small articles to boot. we bought 10 or a dozen pack saddles from the natives our hunters all came to camp towards evening. one of them had killed 2 young deer and one bratow? Friday 6th Sept. 1805. a clear cold morning. we began to? pack up our baggage and look up our horses &c. bought a nomber of lash chords and other small articles from the natives at 10 oclock am the natives all got up their horses and struck their lodges in order to move overr on the head of the Missourie after the buffalow. they make a large show as they are numerous and have abundance of horses we take these savages to be the welch Indians if their be any such from the language so Capt Lewis took down the names of every thing in their language in order that it may be found out whether they are or whether they sprang unclear originated first from the welsh or not. about noon we got ready to set out. we have now 40 good pack horses and three colts. we loaded the horses several men had to take 2 horses &c. 4 hunters were furnished horses without loads to hunt constant. about 1 oclock pm. we set out. the natives set out at the same time to go over on the Missourie we proceeded on our journey. crossed a large creek went over a mountain about 7 miles came down on the same creek and camped nothing to eat but a little pearched corn. on hunter stayed out all night light sprinklings of rain through the course of the day. Saturday 7th Sept. 1805. a cloudy cold morning we set out eairly and proceeded on down