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The ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF
LEWIS AND CLARK Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
[Clark]
CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARK wintered at the enterance
of a Small river opposit the Mouth of Missouri
Called Wood River,[1]
where they formed their party,
Composed of robust helthy hardy young men, recomended
[Sentence unfinished.—Ed.].[2]
[The following memoranda of events in the history of the
expedition prior to its departure from River Dubois, May 14,
1804, are selected from a record, mainly of natural phenomena,
kept by Clark, which is written near the end of Codex C;
order) to p. 216, covering the time from Jan. 1, 1804 to
April 7, 1805. The expedition had gone into camp in December.
—Ed.]
January 30th.
Capt. Lewis arrived from Kahokia
Feby. 29
The weather had been clear since Capt Lewis lef[t] Camp
untill this[3]
March 19th
Visited St. Charles
20th
Return from St Charles after haveing arrested the progress
of a Kickapoo war party
21st
I arrived at River Dubois from St Charles
28th.
Capt. Lewis returned to Camp
29th.
Tried Several men for missconduct
April 2nd
Capt Lewis went to St. Louis. Mr. Hay arrive[d]
[The following memorandum, by both Lewis and Clark, occupies
a detached sheet in the Clark-Voorhis
collection.—Ed.
Local traditions here
place the mouth of the Missouri River in 1803 at one
mile north of Maple Island; it is now four miles below the island. The mouth of
Wood River is one mile below Maple Island, and is supposed to have been in the
same place in 1803.—G. B. DORSEY, Gillespie, Ill.
This unfinished
memorandum is found on the fly-leaf at beginning of the small
note-book designated by Elliott Coues—in his report upon the journals, made to the
American Philosophical Society, Jan. 20, 1893, and reprinted in our Appendix, post
—as "Codex A," from which book is here reproduced Clark's journal of the expedition
from May 13 to August 14, 1804. Occasional entries, written by Lewis during
that period, will be here designated by his name within brackets at the beginning of
such matter.
As stated in the Introduction to the present volume, there are two collections of
original journals of the explorers—that made by Thomas Jefferson and now in the
custody of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia; and that owned by
Mrs. Julia Clark Voorhis and Miss Eleanor Glasgow Voorhis, of New York—granddaughter
and great grand-daughter, respectively, of William Clark. In all references
to the Philadelphia codices, we shall for convenience give Coues's lettered designations
thereof (e.g., "Codex A"); the four Voorhis note-books will be designated by
their Arabic numerals (e. g., "Clark-Voorhis note-book, No.1"). Other Clark
manuscripts in the Voorhis collection will be specifically
alluded to, as they appear in our volumes.—Ed.
The ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF
LEWIS AND CLARK Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||