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 he always wore, hanging from his left arm, the horn of a mountain ram.

"We have heard that you were coming, and have ridden to greet you," said Bighorn. "The sight of you makes our sore eyes well. We have no food for you here, but to-morrow you will reach a lodge where everything will be supplied."

Before breakfast, in the morning, the lodge was found, on the bank of the Lewis or Snake River; but the families living there could supply only two dogs and some root bread.

Next was met Chief Tetoh, or Sky—the honest fellow who, with Twisted-hair, had helped the expedition get through from the Kamass Prairie to the Timm falls of the Columbia.

"Glad to see you. You are welcome," exclaimed Tetoh.

"Where is Chief Twisted-hair? We have come to visit our friends, the Pierced Noses, again, and to get our horses," explained Captain Lewis.

"You must cross the Kin-oo-e-nim (Snake River), here, and go to the Kooskooskee," replied Chief Tetoh. "There you will find the Twisted-hair, who has your horses."

So they crossed, in canoes lent to them by Tetoh, and arrived at the Kooskooskee or Clearwater.

"Eye-water, eye-water," begged the Indians. Captain Clark traded a small bottle of the eye-water for a gray mare.