Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit — John Ordway: April 24, 1806

John Ordway · Columbia River, traveling by horseback · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916

That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): right bank, 2 mi west of Arlington, in WA

to purchase horses so as to leave the canoes, one of our horses
strayed away last night, we hired Indians to hunt him. these
Savages are numerous & tribe of wa-hapari,1 who come from a
river to the North of this, a number of them went at playing a
game for beeds and other property in the Same manner as that
below, we purchased 3 horses & exchanged old axes &C. for
beeds. these Savages are tollerable well cloathed in dressed Deer
and mountain sheep skins & buffaloe robes, but live poor at
this time, as they expect the Salmon to run Soon, we git pleanty
of new Shappalell for Small articles, they have a great number
of horses, the most of them are good to ride or pack, the In-
dians found our lost horse, we hired 2 more of Some of the flat
heads who are going with us. the Indians would not purchace
our canoes, as they find we are going to leave them, but when we
went to Split them they gave us 6 fathem of white beeds for
them, about 11 A. M. we loaded up our horses and Set out
proceed on the Sandy road about 12 miles and Camped2 at a
village where we bought a fiew dogs & gathered a flew willows to
cook with &C.