ear ly      sec ond          fold ed
means       Yo me kol lick   la ter

OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS GOING HOME.

The party wanted to start over the mountains in early June. 
The Indians were not ready to go with them then. 
The party started to go without the Indians. 
They could not find food for the horses. 
There was snow all over the ground. 
They had to turn back and camp where there was grass. 
A week later the Indians were ready to go with them. 
They started a second time. 
The Indians showed them the way. 
They found food for the horses each night. 
The trip across the mountains was not so hard as it had been the year
before. 
Now the snow covered all the sharp rocks. 
The snow was so hard that the horses could walk on it. 
Now they had enough food. 
All the men had horses. 
They went many miles each day. 
All were happy. 
One of the Indians liked Captain Lewis so much that he gave him his
name, “Yomekollick.”

[Illustration:  Yomekollick]

This means “White Bear-skin Folded.” 
The Indians thought their names were the best thing they could give to
any one.

dif fer ent    di vide      ser vice    third
good-bye       south        Yel low stone

EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AGAIN.

Before they left the mountains, the captains said: 

“We will divide our party. 
Then we can go different ways. 
Then we shall see more of the country east of the Rocky Mountains.”

So Captain Lewis and nine men started in a straight line to the Falls of
the Missouri. 
Captain Clark and the others went more to the South. 
Sacajawea went with Captain Clark. 
The two parties promised to meet again down on the Missouri. 
They said good-bye to each other on July third. 
On the next day, Captain Clark wrote that they had a good Fourth of July
dinner. 
They had fat deer and roots. 
Then they went on until time to sleep. 
They had no time to dance now. 
They were going home. 
Captain Lewis and his men pushed on all day. 
He did not write that they thought of the Fourth of July. 
Captain Clark sent ten men down the Missouri River the way they had
come West. 
He went with Sacajawea and ten other men across to the Yellowstone
River. 
Sacajawea found the way for him. 
She also found roots good to eat. 
Captain Clark wrote that she was of “great service” to him. 
Captain Clark’s party went down the Yellowstone River to the Missouri
River. 
Here they met two white men. 
These were the first white men besides themselves that they had seen for
a year and four months. 
They were glad to hear news from the East. 
Soon after they met these white men, Captain Lewis and the other
soldiers came down to them.