The men that accompanied me here have Traded all the Horses from the Cottonahews that they are obliged to carry their Tents and every thing they have upon their Backs, great part of which falls upon the women, the men carrying little or nothing.

At 11 1/4 AM we got underway on our return to our Tents, the same way we came. All the Seven Tents of Cotton ahews accompany us, except 2 Men who are dispatched across the Mountain to their Countrymen & they are to bring back several more Horses to Trade & give as presents to our Indians. They say that they will return back to us in 27 nights more.

Put up at 4 PM in company with the Cottonahews, who pitched their Tents in a manner I had never before seen. They chose at present the middle of a small hammock of asp & with their horn ax they notched the trees all on the out side, forming a circle the size of the Tent, then bent all the Tops together & put on the Tent. This was very expeditiously done. Myself & some of the older Indians slept in their Tent, but all the Young men slept without.

A few high steep ridges on our right near the Track running parallel with the Mountains, with little or no woods on them, on the top of the ridges a kind of Firr, very old & stunted with great quantities of a particular yellow moss adhering to the Trunk & Branches. ...

These Trees have been dead apparantly many years. This moss makes an excellent yellow dye, for porcupine Quils.