Indeed, we have not observed any liquor of intoxicating quality among these or any Indians west of the Rocky Mountains, the universal beverage being pure water.

They, however, sometimes almost intoxicate themselves by smoking tobacco, of which they are excessively fond, and the pleasures of which they prolong as much as possible, by retaining vast quantities at a time, till after circulating through the lungs and stomach it issues in volumes from the mouth and nostrils." A long period of quiet prevailed in camp after the first of February, before the final preparations for departure were made.

Parties were sent out every day to hunt, and the campers were able to command a few days' supply of provision in advance.

The flesh of the deer was now very lean and poor, but that of the elk was growing better and better.

It was estimated by one of the party that they killed, between December 1, 1805, and March 20, 1806, elk to the number of one hundred and thirty-one, and twenty deer.