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some difficulty to get a long the trail in the after part of the day we descended down a hill & came to the forks of a creek where it is large we went down it a short distance and camped at a good place for feed near the creek had come 11 miles this day. Capt Lewis killed a wolf. Some of the men killed a duck and three phesants. we caught some craw fish in the creek and eat them. Sunday 22nd Sept 1805. a clear pleasant morning a white frost. we were detained some time a hunting our horses about nine oclock we found all the horses and set out ascended a mountain and proceeded on came on a smooth level clear place & a run of water met R. Fields who Capt Clark sent back to meet us with some sammon and other kinds of food which they had purchased from some Indians which they found encamped about 8 miles from this. we halted and divided out the food and eat it found it verry good we delayed about one hour & a half. then proceeded on the 2 men who had been back for the lost horse soon overtook us. they had found the horse & port mountous and took on the horse with the one they took with them untill last night then they lost both of the horses they expect that they were stole by some of the natives so they brought the portmantous &c. on their backs we proceeded on over a mountain and down in a handsome smooth valley unclear at an Indian village in a delightful plaine large pitch pine around it these savages was verry glad to see us the men women & children ran meeting us & seemed rejoiced? to see us. we camped near village at a small branch. the natives gave us such food as they had to eat consisting of roots of different kinds which was sweet & good also red & black haws &c. the principal roots which they make use off for food are pleanty