June 22nd.. Satturday 1805
a fine morning Capt Lewis my self and all the party except
a Serjeant Ordway Guterich and the Interpreter and his wife
Sar-car-gah-we-â (who are left at camp to take care of the
baggage left) across the portage with one canoe on truck
wheels and loaded with a part of our baggage I piloted thro
the plains to the camp I [made] at which place I intended the
portage to end which is 3 miles above the medesin River we
had great dificuelty in getting on as the axeltree broke several
times, and the cuppling tongus of the wheels, which was of
cotton & willow, the only wood except Boxelder & [blank
space in MS.] that grow in this quarter, we got within half
a mile of our intended camp much fatigued at dark, our
tongus broke & we took a load to the river on the mens back,
where we found a number of wolves which had distroyed a
great part of our meat which I had left at that place when I
was up day before yesterday. we soon went to sleep & slept
sound wind from the [blank space in MS.] we deturmine
to employ every man cooks & all on the portage after to day.
