Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: June 1, 1806

went and put us on the road which he said was a near way & a
good road, we wrode thro the timbred country struck the head
of a creek in the plain followed down said creek passd one lodge
about noon the road left the creek and kept thro the high plain a
good road, towards evening we came down the riVer hills to a
large village above the forks on kooskooskee river, we halted a
short time to let our horses feed a little and git something to eat
ourselves, bought considerable uppah and couse from the natives
and proceeded on to another village down the river near the forks.2
night came on and we Camped here at the chiefs lodge that gave
us so many horses they appeared verry friendly to us and gave
us a large cake of uppah their is a vast site of excellent horses
1 To return to the main party. Although Thwaites says (V. 100) the journey
is easily traced, it is not easy to fix precisely the route followed. Apparently
they journeyed, from the point some twenty miles above the mouth of Salmon
River, across to Cottonwood Creek, and followed down its valley to the South
Fork of the Kooskooskee; thence down this stream until they reached Camp
Chopunnish.
2 The junction of the South and Middle Forks of Kooskooskee or Clearwater
River. The camp was across the river from the site of Kooskia, Idaho.
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 363
Scattered along this river which they offer to Sell for a Squaw axe
pr peace & 2 or 3 for a gun & a little ammun’