The chief told them that they would soon come to a Chopunnish house where they could get food.

But the journal has this entry:-- "We found the house which Weahkootnut had mentioned, where we halted for breakfast.

It contained six families, so miserably poor that all we could obtain from them were two lean dogs and a few large cakes of half-cured bread, made of a root resembling the sweet potato, of all which we contrived to form a kind of soup.

The soil of the plain is good, but it has no timber.

The range of southwest mountains is about fifteen miles above us, but continues to lower, and is still covered with snow to its base.