Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — John Ordway: May 29, 1806

a rainy morning, we took a light breakfast Frazer got 2 Spanish
mill dollars from a squaw for an old razer we expect they got
them from the Snake Indians who live near the Spanish country
to the South, we proceed on Shortly arived at a fork2 of the
kimoo-enim or Lewises river followed down it Some distance
then left it and bore to the right up a creek. passd one lodge
crossed a steep bad hill and descended down a long hill an[d] a
run pass a large lodge and descended the worst hills we ever saw
a road made down, towards evening we arived at the kimooenim
or Lewises river3 at a fishery at a bad rapid, our chief told us to
set down and not go in the lodge untill we were invited so we did
at length they invited us in. spread robes for us to sit on and Set
a roasted Salmon before us and Some of their white bread which
they call uppah. we eat hearty of this fat fish but did not eat
of it. it was Set up for us. this lodge is about 100 feet long and
20 wide and all in one but they have but fiew Salmon.
1 Lawyer’s Canon Creek. The route led the party up this stream, and the
day’s camp was on its upper waters.
2 They had reached the Salmon River in its lower course — according to Lewis
(journal, June 2) at a point twenty miles above its junction with Snake River.
3 A few miles below the mouth of Salmon River. They were in what is now
southern Nez Perce County, Idaho, on the opposite side of the river from
Wallowa County, Ore.
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