Overland to Walla Walla, council with Yelleppit — John Ordway: April 25, 1806

our horses. Set out proceeded on verry well over a pleasant
plain, about 10 miles and halted at a large village of the pas-
qute-pee [Pisquow] tribe who are verry numerous3 and have a
great number of good horses, we bought 5 dogs, our officers
gave 2 meddles to 2 of their princepal men. Stayed to purchase
horses but they do not incline to Sell any. one Indian brought
back broken glasses which he purchased from us last fall & as
they broke he wanted other glass in place &C. we dined and
proced on a number of Indians followed us. in the evening we
Camped4 at the commencement of a low Country on this Side.
1 “Wahhowpum.” Lewis. Coues supposes them to have been the Klikilat tribe
2 “about 2 miles below our encampment of the [blank spaee in Ms.) of Octo-
ber last.” Lewis. The date left blank must have been October 20. Today’s
camp was twelve miles above the mouth of Hock Creek, which would place
it in the vicinity of Arlington, Ore., but on the opposite side of the river. The
camp of Oct. 20, ISO”) was, therefore, two miles above this point.
1 The village contained “about 700 soles.” Clark.
* The explorers make the distance from the camp of April 25, in the vicinity
of Roosevelt, to that of April ’11 just below the mouth of Umatilla Liver on the
Washington side of the Columbia, forty-eight miles. Twenty miles of this
distance was covered in today’s march, which would bring the camp in the
vicinity of the western boundary of Benton County. Wash.
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 347
our officers purchased two horses from the Indians who followed
us, as they wished to hear the fiddle we played & danced a little
to please them, one of the party killed Several ducks to day.