Tuesday 2nd. of September 1806
Set out at the usial hour passed the River Jacque [James]
at 8 A. M. in the first bottom below on the N E. Side I
observed the remains of a house which had been built since we
passed up, this most probably was M
c.Clellins
[5]
tradeing house
with the Yanktons in the Winter of 1804 & 5. the wind was
hard a head & continued to increas which obliged us to lay by
nearly all day. as our Store of meat [was small], I took with
me 8 men and prosued a Small Gang of Cows in the plains 3
miles and killed two which was in very good order, had them
butchered and each man took a load as much as he could carry
and returned to the Canoes, the wind Still high and water
rough we did not Set out untill near Sun Set we proceded
to a Sand bar a short distance below the place we had come
too on account of the wind and Encamped on a Sand bar, the
woods being the harbor of the musquitors and the party without
the means of Screaning themselves from those tormenting
insects. on the Sand bars the wind which generaly blows
moderately at night blows off those pests and we Sleep Soundly.
The wind continued to blow hard from the same point S. E.
untill 3 P.M. I saw in my walk to day Lynn and Slipery
Elm. the plains are tolerably leavel on each Side and very
fertile. I saw 4 prarie fowls Common to the Illinois, those
are the highest up which have been seen, White Oak is very
common also white ash on the riveens and high bottoms. two
turkys killed to day of which the Indians very much admired
being the first which they ever Saw. Cap
t. L. is mending fast
we made only
22 Miles to day.
