evening passed a number of old lodges, and met a number of men
women children & horses, met a man who appeared of Some
Consideration who turned back with us, we halted a woman & gave us
3 Small Sammon, this man continued with me all night and partook of
what I had which was a little Pork verry Salt. Those Indians are
verry attentive to Strangers &c. I left our interpreter & his woman
to accompany the Indians to Capt Lewis to-morrow the Day they
informed me they would Set out I killed a Pheasent at the Indian
Camp larger than a dungal (dunghill) fowl with f(l)eshey
protubrances about the head like a turkey. Frost last night.'

"Clark got more and more discouraging news about getting down the Lemhi
River, on which they were camped, and the big river below--the Salmon
River. But with the old man for guide, he went about seventy miles, into
the gorge of the Salmon River, before he would quit. But he found that
no man could get down that torrent, with either boat or pack train. He
gave it up. They were nearly starved when they got back at the Indian
camp, where Lewis and the other men were trading. Sacagawea had kept all
her people from going on east to the buffalo country, though now they
none of them had anything to eat but a few berries and choke cherries.
If the Indians had left, or if they had been missed by the party, the
expedition would have ended there. The Indian girl once more had saved
the Northwest for America, very likely.

"Now the old Indian guide said he knew a way across, away to the north.
They hired him as guide. They traded for twenty-nine horses, and at last
packed them and set out for the hardest part of their journey and the
riskiest, though they did not know that then. On August 30th they set
out. At the same time Cameahwait and his band set off east, after their
fall hunt.

"That was the last that Sacagawea ever saw of her brother or her girl
friend. She went on with her white husband, into strange tribes--nothing
further for her to look forward to now, for she was leaving home for
another thousand miles, in the opposite direction.

"And that ended the long, hard, risky time the company of Volunteers for
Discovery of the Northwest had in crossing the Continental Divide. We
lie at the foot of their pass. Yonder they headed out for the setting
sun!"

"Let's go on after them, Uncle Dick!" exclaimed Jesse. "We've got a good
outfit, and we're not afraid!"

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