November 29th.. Friday 1805.
Blew hard and rained the greater part of the last night and
this morning, Capt Lewis and 5 men set out in our small
Indian canoe (which is made in the Indian fashion calculated
to ride the waves) down the South Side of the river to the
place the Indians informed us by signs that numbers of Elk
were to be found near the river. The swells and waves being
too high for us to proceed down in our large canoes in safety.
I sent out two hunters to hunt deer, & one to hunt fowl, all
the others employed in drying their leather and prepareing it
for use, as but fiew of them have many other clothes to boste
of at this time, we are smoked verry much in this camp The
shore on the side next the sea is covered with butifull pebble
of various colours our diat at this time and for several days
past is the dried pounded fish we purchased at the falls boiled
in a little salt water.
