Camp Fortunate, Sacagawea reunites with Cameahwait — John Ordway: August 24, 1805
that the band of the Snake nation who came here yesterday are
going down on the Missourie after the buffaloe and offers Some of
their horses for Sale So we delay this morning in order to purchase
some from them, we got three or 4 more horses & hired two and
loaded all our horses 12 in nomber. then the Squaws took on
their horses the remainder of our baggage we had ab* 20 horses
loaded with baggage and Set out about 12 oClock on our journey to
cross the dividing mountains, we went about 3 miles up the
valley, one of the men P. Wiser was taken of a Sudden with the
collick and ditained us so that we got only about 5 miles this after-
noon and Camped at the creek on the edge of a large Smooth plain
we had a small shower of rain one of the men caught several
large Trout one of the hunters came to camp had killd nothing.
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