. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. SNAKE RIVER STRUCK BELOW THE KOOSKOOSKEE. 985 the niouth (,f the Kooskooskee. Near this place we found the house which Weahkoonut had mentioned, where we halted for breakfas
. History of the expedition under the command of Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : performed during the years 1804-5-6 by order of the government of the United States. Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Botany; Zoology; Botanique; Zoologie; Indians of North America; Indiens d'Amérique. SNAKE RIVER STRUCK BELOW THE KOOSKOOSKEE. 985 the niouth (,f the Kooskooskee. Near this place we found the house which Weahkoonut had mentioned, where we halted for breakfast. It contained six famih-es, so misera- bly poor that all we could obtain from them were two lean dogs and a few large cakes of half-cured bread, made of a root resembling the sweet potato, of all which we contrived to form a kind of soup. The soil of the plain is good, but it has no timber. The range of southwest mountains is about 15 miles above us, but continues to lower, and is still cov- ered with snow to its base. After giving passag. to Lewis' [Snake] river, near their northeastern extremity, they tcrmi nate in a higli [1,500 to 1,000 feet] level plain between that river and the Kooskooskee. The salmon not having yet called them to the , the greater part of tl-e Chopunnish are novv dispersed in villages through this plain, for the pur- pose of collecting quamash and cows [see note, May i2thl which here grow in great abundance, the soil being extremely fertile, m many places covered with long-leaved pine, larch and balsam-fir, which contribute to render it less thirsty than the open, unsheltered plains. After our repast we continued our route along the west [«A (Lewis' K 99 has "up") the south] side of the river where, as well on the as opposite shore, the high hills a/0,,:; the north siJ. of Koos-kooskee,"/. ... passed by the mouth ol the Clear vater and k, pt alo ^ its north they could not have done with- â Ihe sTak? "^^^
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