Nez Perce camps, reuniting with horses — John Ordway: May 2, 1806

all but one of our best horses which they could not find. Several
hunters went on up the branch a hunting. Several of the men
went out in different directions to look for the lost horse, one of
them went back to where we took dinner yesterday and turned
back, was Soon overtaken by an Indian who had caught our
horse & was takeing him to us. as soon as the Indian returned
him to us our officers gave a tommahawk knife and a pr overalls
for the kindness, about noon we proceeded on up the branch
over high plains & Smooth bottoms. the branch forked1 in
Several places high hills to our right covred with timber and
partly covred with Snow, we crossed the branch in several places,
where it was 3 feet deep, our hunters joined us in the evening.
had killed only one beaver and one otter Camped on a fork
of the branch2 came [blank in Ms.] mls