2nd.  Thursday.  Two men making a Chimney in one of the men's houses instead of one that was not safe.  Three procuring wood for the barn, and one drying malt.  The Indians who came yesterday traded and went off.  Fine mild weather.  Wind W.

3rd. Friday.  Cloudy mild weather.  Wind west.  One man employed at again repairing the fence of the farm yard.  Two at the barn, one cutting firewood.  One hauling the barn one thrashing and one drying malt.  The Lake Indians not gone.  Kettle Falls Indians trade few skins in course of the day.

4th.  Saturday.  Snowed all last night and this day.  Wind N. W. Two men squaring wood for the barn.  One hauling the same.  One thrashing, and two working in the forge.  The Lake Indians had made up their minds to pass the winter here, but after much persuasion I have succeeded in getting them to consent to return to their lands after they have gone through a religious dance of three days. 

5th.  Monday.  Five men squaring wood for the barn.  One hauling home the same.  two thrashing, and two working in the forge.  Clear cold weather.  Wind N.  Snow about eight inches on the ground.

7th.  Tuesday.  Wind and weather as yesterday.  Four men employed putting the frame of the barn together and two thrashing wheat at which works they will continue during the week. 

The fort is almost daily crowded with Indians who are tenting near the place.  The abundance of dried salmon which they laid up for their winter's food is the cause of their remaining near us, instead of as usual, removing to a distance to procure their subsistence by the chase.  This circumstance will be a detriment to our trade, for the Indians being stationary do nothing in the way of trapping, and it is an evil which we have in vain tried to prevent: they, in spite of our admonition, prefer remaining quiet and feeding well to hunting  for animals with empty bellies. 

8th.  Wednesday.  Clear Cold weather.  Wind NW

9th.  Thursday.  Wind and weather as yesterday.

10th.  Friday.  Snowy weather.  Wind NE.  Indians who have been off since the salmon season begin to come in to live on their stores of Dried salmon which they laid up for the winter.  These arrivals add considerably to the number of idlers about the place and to our annoyance.  It is true they are civil and friendly enough but still as they are not in the way of hunting furs and always lounging about the premises the sight of them is nowise agreeable, and besides they are a constant pest for tobacco to smoke both at the house at their tents, which they have no means of paying for.  There is an evil attending a plentiful salmon season as well as one of scarcity.  When the former, as this year, happens to be the case the natives loll in idleness during the winter and think of nothing but feasting and smoking tobacco, and when the latter is so, as for some years previous, they starve to death, beg or steal horses for food.

11th.  Saturday.  wind N.  Weather cold.  The barn work, has went on pretty well, as well as the thrashing, during the week.

12th.  Sunday.  Mild cloudy weather wind S.  Thawed a little about the houses towards noon.

13th.  Monday.  Cold cloudy weather.  Wind E.  Sent three men to procure boat wood, which is now getting scarce here, two men thrashing and one working at the barn frame wood.

14th.  Tuesday.  Clear cold weather.  Wind N.  Duties of the place the same as yesterday.

15th.  Wednesday.  Mild weather with light showers of snow.  Wind West.  Three men still continue in the wood raising boat wood.  One employed making wood and hay shed.  One thrashing, and one hauling firewood which has been cut by Indians: indeed if it was not for the assistance we got from Indians at minor jobs about the place, such as cutting firewood, attending on the live stock, carrying water etc.  Some of the principal work must be neglected, owing to the few hands we have got to get through so much labour as has to be done here.

16th.  Thursday.  Mild weather Wind SW.  Three men continue in the woods procuring boat wood.  Two hauling home, with oxen, that which is raised and one thrashing.  A party of Okinagans arrived with only a little venison, and about a dozen of skins in peltries, though the party amount to about forty men; they are the most perfectly useless Indians I have ever seen, for nothing will induce them to be industrious, what is worse they will neither kill the beaver which are in the tolerable plenty on their lands, nor allow other Indians to do so.

17th.  Friday.  Cold weather with light snow.  Wind NW.  The severity of the weather detains the Lake Indians still on the ground, as they can not mount the river in their bark Canoes.  These with all the Kettle and Okinagan Indians upon the [ ] keep the fort constantly crowded and though they are most friendly and will disposed yet, still they are an annoyance in as much as every door they see open they try to enter to warm themselves, and are incessant in their demand for tobacco to smoke.

18th.  Saturday.  Very cold weather wind NW.  The men have finished chopping and raising our boat wood and have got the whole except one log, hauled to the top of the west hill which is as get too slippery to descend.

An Indian woman died suddenly in the camp.

19th.  Sunday.  Snowed all last night and this day, the ground is therefore now will covered and the weather so cold, that the season is in every respect like a winter on the east side of the mountains.

20th.  Monday.  Cold cloudy weather.  Wind NE.  Sent two men with the oxen to bring the log that remain in the woods, one employed finishing the wood and hay slots, two working in the forge, and one thrashing.

21st.  Tuesday.  Snowed all last night and till noon this day.  Wind West.  Two men employed hauling home boat wood from the top of the west hill, the whole of which they got to the spot where it is to be sawed, behind the fort, by sure set, two thrashing, one hauling firewood and one working at the barn.  The Okinagan Indians we have at length got off to their lands, and with them some Lake Indians for a time.  Sent an Indian off to Pendent Orielle bay to look after our horses there.

22nd.  Wednesday.  Snowed all day.  Wind NE.  Four men employed at the barn, one thrashing and one hauling firewood which is cut by Indians. 

Many of the Indians about the place are sick, which I attribute to such numbers being crammed together in large tents.  Their filth and bad food, which consist of rancid dried salmon and unwholesome roots.  The Indian we sent off yesterday returned.

23rd.  Thursday.  Snowed all last night and till nine o clock this morning.  The men employed as yesterday.

24th.  Friday.  Light now all say.  Wind west.  All hands employed at the barn, the frame of which they succeeded in getting up before night which we have been striving to get done before the holidays set in.  Killed a pig weight 135 lb.

25th.  Saturday.  Light snow all day.  Wind west.  As usual the men got a regal which they enjoyed in the utmost harmony.  Some of the Chiefs and principal Indians about the place got a little presents of eatables also to enable them likewise to distinguish the day.  As the duty of the men in this place is constant and hard, and they by their zeal in getting through the work now on hand merit the indulgence I have released them until after New Year's day.

26th.  Sunday.  Mild cloudy weather.  Wind S.  Sent two Indians with provisions to the Indians, who are keeping our horses at Pendent Orielle Bay, waiting the return of the Flat Head people with the fall trade of that Post.

27th.  Monday.  Snowed lightly all day.  Wind NW.

28th.  Tuesday.  Heavy snow all last night and today.  Wind W.  The sickness amongst the Indians, seems to be gaining ground for constant demands are made upon me for medicines from every quarter.

29th.  Wednesday.  Thawed during the day which has sunk the snow a good deal.  Wind S.

30th.  Thursday.  Snowed all day.  Wind west.

31st.  Friday.  Wind and weather as yesterday.  On account of the severity of the weather, and want of exertion on the part of the Indians our month trade is very poor, namely.