October 26th. 1805 Saturday
a fine morning sent out six men to hunt deer & collect
rozin to Pitch our canoes, had all our articles put out to dry.
Canoes drawed out and repaired, the injoiries receved in drawing
them over the rocks, every article wet in the canoe which
nearly sunk yesterday
Took the Azmuth of the Sun & time this morning
|
Azmuth |
|
|
Time |
|
|
distance |
|
|
|
|
h |
m |
s |
|
|
|
| S. |
64°. |
E |
8 |
41 |
6 |
41°. |
1′ |
0″ |
| S. |
63°. |
E |
8 |
45 |
32 |
42 |
6 |
30 |
| S. |
62°. |
E |
8 |
51 |
8 |
43 |
28 |
15 |
Took equal altitudes with Sextant
|
H. |
M |
s. |
|
h |
m |
s |
| A M |
8 |
54 |
22 |
P M |
2 |
9 |
44 |
|
8 |
56 |
41 |
|
" |
12 |
5 |
|
8 |
59 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
Altitude produced from this observation 44° –14′ –15″
a number of Indians came to the opposit side and shew great anxiety
to come over. they delayed untill late
Took time and distance of Sun and moon Sun West P. M.
| h |
m |
s |
|
|
|
| 2 |
21 |
12 |
49° |
51′ |
15″ |
| " |
25 |
45 |
49 |
51 |
00 |
| " |
29 |
4 |
49 |
52 |
00 |
| " |
31 |
43 |
49 |
52 |
30 |
| " |
33 |
9 |
49 |
52 |
45 |
| " |
36 |
2 |
49 |
53 |
30 |
| " |
37 |
49 |
49 |
54 |
30 |
| " |
39 |
5 |
49 |
55 |
00 |
| " |
40 |
23 |
49 |
55 |
30 |
| " |
41 |
36 |
49 |
56 |
00 |
Took time and distance of Moons Western limb & Fulenhalt
[Fomalhaut.] Star East
|
|
Time |
|
|
distance |
|
|
h |
m |
s |
|
|
|
| P M |
6 |
34 |
0 |
67° |
36′ |
15″ |
|
" |
36 |
4 |
67 |
35 |
15 |
|
" |
39 |
2 |
67 |
34 |
30 |
In the evening 2 chief[s] and 15 men came over in a single
canoe, those chiefs proved to be the 2 great chiefs of the
tribes above, one gave me a Dressed Elk Skin, and gave us
some deer meet, and 2 cakes of white bread made of white
roots, we gave to each chief a meadel of the small size a red
silk handkerchief a knife to the 1st. a arm ban[d] & a pice of
Paint & a comb to his son a Pice of riben tied to a tin gorget
and 2 hams of Venison They deturmined to stay with us all
night, we had a fire made for them & one man played on the
violin which pleased them much my servent danced. our
hunters killed five Deer, 4 verry large gray squirrels, a goose
& Pheasent, one man giged a Salmon trout which we had fried
In a little Bears oil which a Chief gave us yesterday and I think
the finest fish I ever tasted, saw great numbers of white
crains flying in Different directions verry high. The river has
rose nearly 8 Inches to day and has every appearance of a tide,
from what cause I can't say. our hunters saw Eik & bear
signs to day In the white oake woods the countrey to the
Lard. is broken Countrey thinly timbered with pine and white
oake, a mountain which I must call Timm or falls mountain
rises verry high and bears to S.W. the course it has bore since
we first saw it, our men danced to night. dried all our wet
articles and repaired our canoes.
The flees my self and the men got on them in passing thro
the plains the Indians had lately lived in Lodges on the Lard.
Side at the falls, are very troublesom and with every exertion
the men can't get rid of them, particularly as they have no
clothes to change those which they wore. Those Indians are
at war with the Snake Indians on the river which falls in a few
miles above this and have lately had a battle with them, their
loss I cannot lern
