Several Indians came down from the village of Tunnachemootoolt and passed the night with us.

Cut-nose and Twisted-hair seem now perfectly reconciled, for they both slept in the house of the latter.

The man who had imposed himself upon us as a brother of Twisted-hair also came and renewed his advances, but we now found that he was an impertinent, proud fellow, of no respectability in the nation, and we therefore felt no inclination to cultivate his intimacy.

Our camp was in an open plain, and soon became very uncomfortable, for the wind was high and cold, and the rain and hail, which began about seven o'clock, changed in two hours to a heavy fall of snow, which continued till after six o'clock (May 10th), the next morning, when it ceased, after covering the ground eight inches deep and leaving the air keen and cold.

We soon collected our horses, and after a scanty breakfast of roots set out on a course S.35'0 E." They were now following the general course of the Kooskooskee, or Clearwater, as the stream is called, and their route lay in what is now Nez Perce County, Idaho.