Lewis: May 19, 1806
Rain cleared by 8 AM. A trading party of five men was sent across the river to a nearby village to buy roots, using awls, knitting pins, and armbands as trade goods; they returned at 5 PM with about six bushels of cous roots and bread. A group of ailing Nez Perce villagers visited and were treated for sore eyes and rheumatic pains. The Field brothers recovered Lewis's horse, which was castrated along with two others by Drouillard. Shields and Gibson returned from hunting empty-handed.
Monday May 19th 1806. It continued to rain this morning untill 8 OCk. when
it became fair. We sent Charbono, Thompson, Potts, Hall and Wiser over the
river to a village above in order to purchase some roots to eat with our
lean bear meat. for this purpose we gave them a few awls, Kniting pins and
Armbands. we were informed that there was a canoe at the village in which
they could pass the river. I sent Joseph and R. Feilds up the river in
surch of the horse which I rode over the Rocky mountains last fall. he had
been seen yesterday with a parse) of indian horses and has become almost
wild. at 11 A.M. Thompson returned from the village accompanied by a train
of invalids consisting of 4 men 8 women and a child. The men had soar eyes
and the women in addition to soar eyes had a variety of other complaints
principally rheumatic; a weakness and pain in the loins is a common
complaint with their women. eyewater was administered to all; to two of
the women cathartics were given, to a third who appeared much dejected and
who from their account of her disease we supposed it to be histerical, we
gave 30 drops of Laudanum. the several parts of the others where the
rheumatic pains were seated were well rubed with volitile linniment. all
of those poor wretches thought themselves much benefited and all returned
to their village well satisfyed. at 5 P.M. or marketers returned with
about 6 bushels of the cows roots and a considerable quanty of bread of
the same materials. late in the evening Reubin and Joseph Feilds returned
with my horse; we had him immediately castrated together with two others
by Drewyer in the ordinary. we amused ourselves about an hour this
afternoon in looking at the men running their horses. several of those
horses would be thought fleet in the U States. a little after dark Sheilds
and Gibson returned unsuccessful) from the chase. they had seen some deer
but no bear.
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Monday May 19th 1806. It continued to rain this morning until 8 o'clock, when it became fair. We sent Charbono (Charbonneau), Thompson, Potts, Hall, and Wiser over the river to a village upstream in order to purchase some roots to eat with our lean bear meat. For this purpose we gave them a few awls, knitting pins, and armbands. We were informed that there was a canoe at the village in which they could cross the river. I sent Joseph and R. Feilds (Fields) up the river in search of the horse which I rode over the Rocky Mountains last fall. He had been seen yesterday with a group of Indian horses and has become almost wild.
At 11 A.M. Thompson returned from the village accompanied by a train of invalids consisting of 4 men, 8 women, and a child. The men had sore eyes, and the women, in addition to sore eyes, had a variety of other complaints, principally rheumatic; a weakness and pain in the loins is a common complaint with their women. Eyewater was administered to all; to two of the women cathartics were given; to a third, who appeared much dejected and whose disease, from their account of it, we supposed to be hysterical, we gave 30 drops of laudanum. The several parts of the others where the rheumatic pains were seated were well rubbed with volatile liniment. All of those poor wretches thought themselves much benefited, and all returned to their village well satisfied.
At 5 P.M. our marketers returned with about 6 bushels of the cows roots and a considerable quantity of bread made of the same materials. Late in the evening Reubin and Joseph Feilds (Fields) returned with my horse; we had him immediately castrated, together with two others, by Drewyer (Drouillard) in the ordinary manner. We amused ourselves about an hour this afternoon in watching the men race their horses. Several of those horses would be thought fast in the United States. A little after dark Sheilds (Shields) and Gibson returned unsuccessful from the chase. They had seen some deer but no bear.
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