Captain Clark, therefore, opened the abscess, introduced a tent, and dressed it with basilicon.

We also prepared and distributed some doses of flour of sulphur and cream of tartar, with directions for its use.

For these we obtained several dogs, but too poor for use, and therefore postponed our medical operations till the morning.

In the mean time a number of Indians, besides the residents of the village, gathered about us or camped in the woody bottom of the creek." It will be recollected that when the expedition was in this region (on the Kooskooskee), during the previous September, on their way westward, they left their horses with Chief Twisted-hair, travelling overland from that point.

They were now looking for that chief, and the journal says:-- "About two o'clock we collected our horses and set out, accompanied by Weahkoonut, with ten or twelve men and a man who said he was the brother of Twisted-hair.