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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents

Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)

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The Original Journals of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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11th August Satturday 1804.—

about day light this morning a hard wind from the NW.
with Some rain proceeded on arround the right of the Isd.

S. 52° W.	1/2	a Mile on the Sand pt.
N. 25 W.	2	Mls.. to a pt. of low Willows from the L. S. passd. the Isd. & a Sand bar makeing from the S. point.
N. 72 W.	2 1/4	Ms. to a Pt. on the S. S.

a hard wind accompanied with rain from the S. E. after the
rain was over, Capt. Lewis myself & 10 men assended the Hill
on the L. S. (under which there was some fine Springs) to the
top of a high point where the Mahars King Black Bird was
burried 4 years ago. [Died of small pox][13] a mound of earth
about 12 [feet—Biddle] Diameter at the base, & 6 feet high
is raised over him turfed, and a pole 8 feet high in the Center
on this pole we fixed a white flage bound with red Blue &
white, this hill about 300 feet above the water forming a
Bluff between that & the water of various hight from 40 to
150 feet in hight, yellow soft Sand stone from the top of this
Nole the river may be Seen Meandering for 60 or 70 miles,
we Decended & set out N. 24° W. 1/2 Ml. passing over a Sand
bar on the S. pt. along the willows to the river opposit a Small
Beyeau on the L. S. which is the Conveyance of the high
water from a bend which appears near in a northerly derection,
haveing passed a Creek in a Deep bend to the L. S. Called by

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the Mahars Wau can di Peeche (Great Spirrit is bad) on the
Creek & Hills near it about 400 of the Mahars Died with the
Small Pox

Took Medn. altitude & made the Latd. 42°. 1′. 3″ 8/10 N. also the
Moons Distance from the Sun

	Time			Distance
	H. M S			O M S
P. M.	1 - 13. 45	.	.	73 - 6 - 45
	" - 16. 48	.	.	73 - 6 - 0
	" - 18. 39	.	.	" - 6 - 0
	" - 20. 55	.	.	" - 7 - 45
	" - 22. 25	.	.	" - 8 - 30
	" - 24 - 24	.	.	" - 9 - 30
	" - 25. 45	.	.	" - 9 - 30
	" - 27. 43	.	.	" - 10 - 45
	" - 29. 33	.	.	" - 11 - 30
	" - 31. 30	.	.	" - 12 - 00

S 81° E	2 3/4	miles to the beginning of a point of willows on the L. Side
N. 84°. E.	6	Miles to a high wood above a Prarie on the S. S. opposit a Sand point
N. 22°. E.	1 1/4	to a pt. of willows on the L. S.
North	1 3/4	to a Cotton tree in a bend to the Starboard Side passed
Miles	17.	a Sand bar on the L. S. & Camped[14]

the Musquitoes verry troublesom, Great Nos. of Herrons.
this evening.

I have observed a number of places where the River has
onced run and now filled, or filling up & growing with willows
& Cottonwood.

[13]

Brackenridge gives (Louisiana, pp. 229, 230) an interesting account of this chief,
who gained an unlimited ascendency over the tribes of that region by his possession of
some arsenic, by which he threatened death against any one who opposed him. Irving
describes (Astoria, p. 161) the burial of this chief upon his horse. His skull was
carried away by George Catlin in 1832, and is now in the U. S. National Museum
(Smithsonian Report, 1885, ii, p. 263).—Ed.

[14]

Near the present Badger Lake, Monona Co., Ia,—Coues (L. and C., i, p. 73).

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11th August Satturday 1804.—