June the 15th.. Satturday 1805
a fair morning and worm, we set out at the usial time and
proceeded on with great dificuelty as the river is more rapid
we can hear the falls this morning verry distinctly. our Indian
woman sick & low spirited I gave her the bark & apply it
exteranely to her region which revived her much. the current
excessively rapid and dificuelt to assend great numbers of
dangerous places, and the fatigue which we have to encounter
is incretiatable the men in the water from morning untill
night hauling the cord & boats walking on sharp rocks and
round sliperery stones which alternately cut their feet & throw
them down, notwith standing all this dificuelty they go with
great chearfulness, aded to those dificuelties the rattle snakes
[are] inumerable & require great caution to prevent being
bitten. we passed a small river on the Lard Side about 30
yards wide verry rapid which heads in the mountains to the
S.E. I sent up this river 5 miles, it has some timber in its
bottoms and a fall of 15 feet at one place, above this river
the bluffs are of red earth mixed with stratums of black stone,
below this little [river], we pass a white clay which mixes with
water like flour in every respect, the Indian woman much
wors this evening, she will not take any medison, her husband
petetions to return &
c., river more rapid late in the
evening we arrived at a rapid which appeared so bad that I
did not think it prudent to attempt passing of it this evening
as it was now late, we saw great numbers of Gees Ducks,
crows Blackbirds &
c. Geese & Ducks with their young. after
Landing I detached Joseph Fields to Cap
t Lewis to let him
know where I was &
c. river rises a little this evening we
could not get a sufficency of wood for our use
Course & Distance June 15th.
|
miles |
|
| South |
1 1/2 |
to a point on the Stard Side |
| S. 28°. W. |
2 1/4 |
to a rock resembling a tour [tower] in the Stard. bend |
| S. 10°. E. |
1 3/4 |
to the Stard. point passing a rapid |
| S. 60°. W. |
3/4 |
to a tree in the Std. bend rocks & rapids all the dist |
| South |
3/4 |
to some bushes on a Lard point passed a large Creek
at 1/2 a mile on the Lard Side which we called
Shield's Creek[14]
|
| S. 10°. E. |
1 1/2 |
to the Stard point |
| S. 50°. W. |
1 |
to a point on the Lard. Side |
| South |
1 1/4 |
to the Stard point opposit an Island opposit a Bluff |
| S. 10°. W. |
1 1/4 |
to the point (a few trees) Lard. Side at a rapid, passed
red bluffs & camped on the Stard. Side |
| S. 10°. W. |
3/4 |
to the foot of a rapid at which place we comm[enc]ed
the portage, formed a camp & unloaded on the Lard
Side |
|
12 3/4 |
|
