Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 22, 1806

most of the women went out eairly with their horses to dig roots,
the women do the most of the Slavery as those on the Missourie
the men went eairly to a Swet house built a large fire and put in a
large quantity of Small Stone and het them red hot then put them
in some water in the Swet hole which was prepared for that purpose
& only a hole big enofe to git in one at a time, about 12 at on
once got in to the hole untill they Sweet then went in the water
and bathed themselves, then in the hole again and bathed them-
selves in that way for about 2 hours, they Signed to me that it
was to help them of Some disease & Sore eyes, &C. &C. I then
returned with a back load of white roots to the Encampment.
Several of the party were employed makeing a canoe for con-
venience of the fishing &C and 4 men were gone a hunting. Serg*
Pryor was sent down to the mouth of Collins creek [Lolo Creek]
to see if their is any good place to encamp as all may moove down
in our canoe for a better place to fish and hunt if the place will
admit &C. we haveing had no meat of any account for several
days we killed a fine colt. Serg* Pryor returnd without finding
the mouth of Collins creek as the clifts were so high he got only
8 miles five of our hunters returnd had killed five deer and
brought in the meat, a number of Indians chased a deer down
the hills with their horses on South Side of the river it took the
river tho the Inds had wounded it with their arrows. Some of
the party Shot in [it] in the river and the Indians got it. in the
evening we made a fire on the canoe to burn it out.