14th July.
Had the carriage wheels dug up. found them in good order.
the iron frame of the boat had not suffered materially. had
the meat cut thiner and exposed to dry in the sun. and some
roots of cows of which I have yet a small stock pounded into
meal for my journey. I find the fat buffaloe meat a great
improvement to the mush of these roots. the old cash being
too damp to venture to deposit my trunks &c. in I sent them
over to the Large island and had them put on a high scaffold
among some thick brush and covered with skins. I take this
precaution lest some indians may visit the men I leave here
before the arrival of the main party and rob them. the hunters
killed a couple of wolves, the buffaloe have almost entirely
disappeared. saw the bee martin. the wolves are in great
numbers howling arround us and loling about in the plains in
view at the distance of two or three hundred yards. I counted
27 about the carcase of a buffaloe which lies in the water at the
upper point of the large island. these are generally of the
large kind. Drewyer did not return this evening.
