The Indians appeared to be entirely satisfied, and they sold their visitors as much provisions as their half-famished horses could carry.

The journal here says:-- "All around the village the women are busily employed in gathering and dressing the pasheco-root, of which large quantities are heaped in piles over the plain.

We now felt severely the consequence of eating heartily after our late privations.

Captain Lewis and two of the men were taken very ill last evening; to-day he could hardly sit on his horse, while others were obliged to be put on horseback, and some, from extreme weakness and pain, were forced to lie down alongside of the road for some time.

At sunset we reached the island where the hunters had been left on the 22d.