there was great joy with the natives last night in consequence of the arrival of the Salmon; ... this fish was dressed and being divided into small peices was given to each child in the village. this custom is founded in a supersticious opinion that it will hasten the arrival of the salmon. ... we have now only one small kettle to a mess of 8 men.

these people are very faithless in their contracts; they frequently receive the merchandize in exchange for their horses and after some hours insist on some additional article being given them or revoke the exchange. they have pilfered several small articles from us this evening. ... one of the men Willard was negligent in his attention to his horse and suffered it to ramble off; it was not to be found when I ordered the others to be brought up and confined to the picquits. this in addition to the other difficulties under which I laboured was truly provoking. I repremanded him more severely for this piece of negligence than had been usual with me. ... all except one were stone horses for the people in this neighbourhood to not understand the art of gelding them, and this is a season at which they are most vicious.

April 19, 1806
William Clark

I purchased 4 horses at the town & Capt Lewis purchased one. the natives finding that we were about to proceed on by water sold us those fiew horses for which we were compd. to pay them emence prices and the horses were indifferent.

April 19, 1806
Patrick Gass

The morning was cloudy and all hands were engaged in carrying the baggage and canoes over the portage, which is two miles in length. Five more horses were got in the course of the day. Some light showers of rain fell in the afternoon, and about 4 o'clock, we got all our baggage and canoes across except the two large ones, of which we made firewood. At the same time Captain Clarke and four men went on ahead to the village at the great falls [Celilo Falls] to endeavour to get some more horses, by the time we arrived there, a distance of about 8 miles from this village. In the evening the weather cleared up and we had a fine night.

April 19, 1806
John Ordway

a clear cold morning  a little Snow fell on the hills last night.  all hands went a packing the baggage past the portage which is about 2 miles  towards evening we got all the baggag and canoes carried to the head of the narrows above the village & Camped [Above the Long Narrows of The Dalles, near the camp of October 24, 1805]  carried our firewood past the portage also as it is so hard about the village that the Savages value it high. Capt. Clark bought 3 or 4 more horses this day. Capt. Clark and 3 men [Four according to Lewis and Clark: Pryor, Shannon, Curzatte and Labiche] Set out this evening to go up to the Short narrows at a village in order to purchase horses untill our arival.