Clark: September 5, 1805

William Clark · Lost Trail Pass, meeting Flathead Salish at Ross's Hole

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): camp with Salish on Camp Creek south of Sula, MT

September 5th Thursday 1805 a Cloudy morning we assembled the Chiefs &
warriers and Spoke to them (with much dificuely as what we Said had to
pass through Several languajes before it got in to theirs, which is a
gugling kind of languaje Spoken much thro the fhrought) we informed them
who we were, where we Came from, where bound and for what purpose &c.
&c. and requsted to purchase & exchange a fiew horses with them,
in the Course of the day I purchased 11 horses & exchanged 7 for which
we gave a fiew articles of merchendize. those people possess ellegant
horses.we made 4 Chiefs whome we gave meadels & a few Small
articles with Tobacco; the women brought us a few berries & roots to
eate and the Principal Chief a Dressed Brarow, otter & two Goat &
antilope Skins

Those people wore their hair the men Cewed with otter Skin on each Side
falling over the Sholrs forward, the women loose promisquisly over ther
Sholdrs & face long Shirts which Coms to the anckles & tied with a
belt about their waste with a roabe over, the have but fiew ornaments and
what they do were are Similar to the Snake Indians, They Call themselves
Eoote-lash-Schute and consist of 450 Lodges in all and divided into
Several bands on the heads of Columbia river & Missouri, Some low down
the Columbia River