They bring us accounts of the few horses we had still remaining at the Bay being all dead except six.  The loss of horses there this season is a most serious one in every point of view, and particularly so on account of our stock being so small.

Some Spokane Indians arrived with a few skins to trade.

2nd.  Wednesday.  Mild overcast weather wind west.  A few more Indians moved off towards the Pendent d'Orielle Bay.  Others preparing to follow tomorrow.

3rd.  Thursday.  Clear cold weather.  Wind N.  There is now a good deal of ice along the sides of the river ford, besides a considerable quantity drifting.

4th.  Friday.  Wind and weather as yesterday.

5th.  Saturday.  Weather cloudy.  Wind NW.  Engaged two Indians to carry letters to Okinagan for Mr. Chief Factor McLoughlin.  Got the goods for the Flat Head post laid up and ready for the people of that place to start on Monday.  LaCourse and partner finished sawing the boat wood. 

6th.  Sunday.  Mild cloudy weather.  Wind SW.  Sent the two Indians engaged yesterday to Okinagan with the letters alluded above.  The Indians as on every other Sunday attended divine services at the Chiefs tents where they spent about six hours at their devotions.

7th.  Monday.  Weather very cold and clear.  Wind NW.  Owing to the coldness of the weather the Flat Head People must make a further delay until it changes for the milder, as it is apprehended the Pendent Orielle River is set fart altogether as to render it impracticable to ascend it in a canoe.  These men are in the mean time put to work with those of the place, at the following jobs vis three men thrashing, two sawing, two cutting and hauling firewood, one melting grease, and one doing jobs in the carpenter way.

Two men, a girl, a boy and a child very ill in the Fort, and several others slightly so.  A few more Indians moved off in different directions after getting their calendar for the Sunday examined and corrected, besides a little ammunition gratis to provide something substantial for the body also.

8th.  Tuesday.  Weather very cold.  Last night was the coldest of the season.  Wind N.  duties of the place as yesterday.  Exchanged some Kegs of potatoes for dried salmon, and venison with the Indians.

9th.  Wednesday.  Weather continues cold. Last night still more so than the preceding.  Wind NW.

The work of the people continues as above and will do so during the week.  Our sick in the fort are very low, and many Indians about the place are in a like condition.  My chief employment at present is dispensing medicines, no very pleasant occupation at any time, but particularly so when mostly [ ] neither knowing the disease nor the medicines proper for it.

10th.  Thursday.  Weather sill cold.  Wind NW.  Got home some lean horses which are at deaths door to gain a livelihood about the farm yard.

11th.  Friday.  Weather not so cold as for some days back.  Wind west.

12th.  Saturday.  Rather mild cloudy weather.  Wind S.  This morning one of our horses at the guard died, and if the snow does not soon melt we may expect several others will quickly follow as they are mere skeletons.

13th.  Sunday.  The weather seems to be on the way of changing for the milder.  We have had a strong south wind during the night and today which has somewhat soften the snow.  The Flat Head people are ready to start tomorrow at all risk, as Mr. Kittson must, by this time be anxious to see them back.  Got three of our strongest horses home to carry the property, for that place, as far as the mountain; whence the people will have to carry it on their backs to Pendent Orielle Bay, as horses cannot proceed thither through the deep snow.  Four Indians are engaged to assist the men to the Bay with the loads, who are to return from there loaded with grease and dressed leather, for which service they are to be paid five skins each.

14th.  Monday.  Thawed all day.  Wind S.  The Flat Head men with four Indians, set out as arranged yesterday on their return to the Flat Head Post.  LaCourse commenced dressing his boat timbers, two men thrashing wheat, one at carpenters work and two sick.  A calf died a the horse guard.  The Indians continue to move off by twos and threes, but many still remain on the ground, who keep constantly plaguing us for tobacco and potatoes of the former we cannot help giving them a pope now and then gratis, as also some potatoes, but of these we generally make an exchange for mats and dried salmon which answers well for both parties.

15th.  Tuesday.  Mild weather.  Wind SW.  Thawed most part of the day and froze nothing during the night.

The people of the place employed as yesterday and will continue so during the week.  Put six pigs up to fatten which are intended for the use of the gentry of the interior ensuing summer, as well as those of the York Factory express.  Got home three more of our leanest horses to pick up a livelihood about the farm yard.  Set the women of the Fort and some Indian women to overhaul our potatoes.

16th.  Wednesday.  Snowed during last night and this morning, after which the weather cleared up, and the snow melted in sunny situations.  Wind SE.

17th.  Thursday.  Snowed all day.  Wind N.  Opened some pits of potatoes in the garden which were damaged from being overheated, but they cannot be considered lost as our hogs eat hem quite as well as if they were perfectly sound.  We were obligated to deposit these potatoes in pits, for want of room, our root cellar being full.

18th.  Friday.  Mild cloudy weather,  wind W.  No thaw however except in a slight degree in situations exposed to the sun.

19th.  Saturday.  Wind NW with sleet and rain in succession throughout the day.

20th.  Sunday.  As Yesterday.

21st.  Monday.  Thawed all day.  Wind S.  Two men thrashing.  One dressing boat wood. One laying the flooring of a store.  One burning wood for ashes to husk Indians corn with, and the blacksmith doing jobs in the forge at which occupation they will all continue during the week.  Got home two more horses  who are quite lean to feed about the farm yard.  Two lake Indians arrived with a little meat and two or three skins in furs.

22nd.  Tuesday.  Cloudy weather.  Snow melted only in sunny situations.  Wind W.  A few Spokane, Cing Poils, and Kettle Indians arrived from below but brought nothing to trade.  They say a great number of their horses have died in consequence of the great depth of snow and severity of the season.

23rd.  Wednesday.  Snowed all last night and till noon this day when it changed to sleet and afterwards to rain.  Wind.  the women finished overhauling our potatoes of which we still have 1660 kegs.  All in good condition, which is abundance for all purposes, as long s they will keep.  The horse keeper came home to inform us that another horse died in course of the night, though not so much reduced in flesh as some that still survive.  Many Indians, as usual, about the place, begging tobacco and potatoes, both of which I believe they are equally fond of.

24th.  Thursday.  Thawed in a small degree in sunny situations.  Wind N.  Three Lake Indians arrived with a little venison, which they traded for ammunition.

25th.  Friday.  Overcast until noon, afterwards light rain.  Wind W.  The two Indians sent to Okinagan on the 6th instant with letters for Fort Vancouver returned.  Also the Indians sent with the Flat Head people on the 13th to Pendent Oreille Bay.  These brought three bales of meat with fat and two small bales of Leather, the former from the flat head post and the latter from the Kootinais.

26th.  Saturday.  Mild cloudy weather wind W.  Traded a little meat from Indians in our neighborhood.  Furs of any kind are now rarely seen.

27th.  Sunday.  Snow and sleet in the fore part of the day, afterwards mild and cloudy.  Wind NW.

28th.  Monday.  Snowed all last night and today.  Wind NW.  Two men employed thrashing two plaining boat wood etc and the blacksmith and carpenter at their trades, all of whom will continue at their jobs for the week.  The following is the trade for the month, which is certainly wretched.

	Kettle Indians	Lake Indians	Spokanes
1 large Grizzli bear	1
1 cub Grizzli bear		1
13 fishers	10	1	2
1 red fox			1
4 lynx	1	3
4 minks	4
1 wolf	1
45 mats	45
87 pd dried salmon	87
725 lb venison	625	100
1 steel trap	1