[*The bean is the product of the hog peanut or ground bean plant, Amphicarpa bracteata The Arikaras obtained them from the underground stores of the meadow mouse or vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus. It is said that they always left some other food in its place for the mice.]

Lewis: we met in Council to hear what the Grand Chief Ka kaw issassa had to Say in answer to the Speech of yesterday The Grand Chief rose and spoke as follows —

My Fathers—! My heart is glader than it ever was before to See my fathers.— a repetition.

If you want the road open no one Can provent it it will always be open for you.

Can you think any one Dare put their hands on your rope of your boat. No! not one dar

When you Get to the mandans we wish you to Speak good words with that Nation for us. we wish to be at peace with them.

It gives us pain that we do not Know how to work the Beaver, we will make Buffalow roabs the best we Can.

when you return if I am living you will See me again the same man. The Indian in the prarie know me and listen to my words, when you [come] they will meet to See you.

We Shall look at the river with impatienc for your return. Finished

The Country on either Side is an open plain leavel & fertile after assending a Steep assent of about 200 feet not a
tree of any kind to be Seen on the river The after part of the day the wind from the S. W. and hard. The day worm.

Gass: We set out early in a fine morning; proceeded on about 6 miles, and halted at some lodges of the natives, where we got fish and several dogs. We continued here about an hour and then went on. No accident happened to
day though we passed some bad rapids.

In the evening we stopped at some Indian camps and remained all night, having come 30 miles. Here we got more
fish and dogs. Most of our people having been accustomed to meat, do not relish the fish, but prefer dog meat;
which, when well cooked, tastes very well.

Here we met an Indian of another nation, who informed us we could get to the falls in 4 days: which I presume are not very high as the salmon come above them in abundance.

The country on both sides is high dry prairie plains without a stick of timber. There is no wood of any kind to be seen except a few small willows along the shore; so that it is with difficulty we can get enough to cook with. The hills on the river are not very high, but rocky; the rocks of a dark colour. The bed and shores of the river are very stony; and the stones of a round smooth kind.

Whitehouse: We saw among these Indians some pieces of a fishing Seine, which we supposed must have come
from some Civilized nation. We also saw among them a Copper Teakettle.

We continued on our way, & saw a number of fishing Camps, where the Natives come to fish in the Spring of the
Year. We also saw Stones piled up in Rows, so that when the River is high the Salmon lies along side the Rocks, at which place the Natives kill them with a Gig.—