Columbia near The Dalles, trading for horses — John Ordway: April 17, 1806

eral of our hunters went out a hunting, the Small birds of different
kinds are Singing around us. Cap* Clark not returned but wrote
a line to Cap* Lewis that he had not purchased any horses yet but
was going up to another village above the falls where he expected
to purchase Some this day. Cap* Lewis wrote back that we Should
move tomorrow up to the bason as far as we can go with the
canoes, our hunters killed only one Deer this day. towards even-
ing a number of Indians visited our Camp one of them informed
us that he had killed 2 Indians on this ground in a battle some
years ago as they were at war with Some nations to the Southward.