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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Satturday august 11th 1804

Set out after a verry hard Storm this morning of wind and
Rain continued untill 9 oclock A m. and Cleard up prosed
on passed a high Bluff whare the Kinge of the Mahas Died
about 4 yeares ago the Hill on which he is berred is about
300 feet High the nathion Goes 2 or 3 times a year to Cryes
over him Capt Lewis and Clark went up on the Hill to See
the Grave thay histed a flage on his Grave as noner [an
honor] for him which will pleas the Indianes, passed the
mouth of a Creek on the South Side Called Waie Con Di
Peeche or the Grait Sperit is Bad whare this Chief died and
about 300 Hundred of his men with the Small pox this
Chiefs name was the Black Bird made 15 miles Camped on
the North Side