October 6th Saturday [Sunday] 1805
A Co[o]l Easterley Wind which Springs up in the latter
part of the night and continues untill about 7 or 8 oClock
A.M. had all our Saddles Collected a whole dug and in the
night buried them, also a Canister of powder and a bag of
Balls at the place the Canoe which Shields made was cut from
the body of the tree. The Saddles were burried on the Side
of a bend about ½ mile below. all the Canoes finished this
evening ready to be put into the water. I am taken verry
unwell with a pain in the bowels & Stomach, which is certainly
the effects of my diet which last all night.
The winds blow cold from a little before day untill the Suns
gets to Some hight from the Mountains East as they did from
the Mountains at the time we lay at the falls of Missouri from
the West
The river below this forks is Called Kos-kos-kee it is Clear
rapid with Shoals or Swift places
The open Countrey Commences a fiew miles below this on
each side of the river, on the Lard Side below the 1st Creek.
with a few trees Scattered near the river.[66]
