23rd August Thursday 1804—
Set out this morning verry early the two men with the
horses did not come up last night I walked on Shore & Killed
a fat Buck. J.
Fields Sent out to hunt Came to the Boat
and informed that he had Killed a
Buffalow in the plain a head.
Cap. Lewis took 12 Men and had the buffalow
brought to the
boat in the next bend to the S. S. 2 Elk Swam the river,
and
was fired at from the boat R. Fields came up with the Horses
and
brought two Deer one Deer killed from the Boat. Several
Prarie Wolves Seen
to day Saw Elk Standing on the Sand
bar. The Wind blew hard [west] and raised the Sands off
the bar in Such Clouds
that we Could Scercely [see] this Sand
being fine
and verry light Stuck to everry thing it touched,
and in the Plain for a
half a mile the distance I was out, every
Spire of Grass was covered with
the Sand or Durt.
We camped on the L. S. above a Sand Island, one Beaver
Cought.
Course Distance & ref.
Augt. 23rd.
| West |
4 |
Mls. to a Small run between two Bluffs of Yellow &
Blue
Earth. [L.
S.] |
| North |
3 1/4 |
Mls. to Some timber in a bend to the S. S. passd. a
Willow Island, a Sand Isd opsd psd a pt. of
High Land S. S. at 1/4 of Ml. |
| S. 48°.
W. |
3 |
Mls. to a pt. of Willows on the S. S. having passd the
Sand bar on the L. point. |
