17th. of
September Monday 1804—
Dried all our wet articles, this
fine Day, Capt. Lewis went
out with a View to See the
Countrey and its productions, he
was out all day he killed a Buffalow and
a remarkable Bird
(Magpy) of
the Corvus Species long tail the upper part of the
feathers & also the wings is of a purplish variated Green, the
back & a part of the wing feathers are white edged with black,
white belly, while from the root of the wings to Center of the
back
is White, the head nake [neck—Ed.] breast &
other
parts are black the Beeke like a Crow, abt.
the Size of a large
Pigion. a butifull thing.
I took equal altitudes and a meridian altitude.
Capt. Lewis
returned at Dark, Colter Killed a Goat
like the one I killed
and a curious kind of Deer (Mule
Deer) of a Dark gray Colr.
more so than common,
hair long & fine, the ears large & long,
a Small reseptical under
the eyes; like an Elk, the Taile about
the length of Common Deer, round
(like a Cow) a tuft of
black hair about the end, this Spec[i]es of Deer
jumps like a
goat or Sheep
8 fallow Deer 5 Common & 3 Buffalow
killed to day.
Capt Lewis saw a hare & killed a Rattle snake in a village of
B.[arking—Ed.] Squarels the wind from S. W.
Dryed
our provisions, Some of which was much Damaged.
