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Monday 21 Oct. 1805 a clear cold

morning we set out eairly and proceeded
on as usual. untill about 8 oclock 

at which time we halted at an Indian camp where we bought some wood and cooked breakfast. bought pounded fish from the natives and some root bread which was made up in cakes in form of ginger bread and eat verry well. saw a nomber of rakoon skins also otter and fisher skins &c. they gave us any thing we asked for by our giving any small aticle we unclear we proceeded on passed clifts of rocks and unclear hills on each side passed over several verry bad rockey rapids where the river was nearly filled with high rocks of a dark coulour and the water divided in narrow deep channels where we ran through verry fast high waves and whorl pools below. passed several islands and fishing camps where the natives had a large quantity of pounded fish the best of their sammon pounded up and put in small stacks along the shore for winter & cover them with straw and pile the stone around them. the solid clifts continue on each side. saw a little scattering pine timber on the hills on each side of the river some places