Sunday 23rd.. June 1805.
the wind has Shifted to the East. Cloudy. a light Sprinkling
of rain. in the afternoon one of the hunters came in from
the Medicine River & informed us that one man G. Shannon
left them the first day he left this place, & took with him a
Small kittle & Some parched meal which was for the hunters,
and that the other 2 had killed 16 buffalow and a fiew Deer
but Saw no Elk. had dryed considerable of fat buffalow meat
at their Camp on the Medicine River. in the evening Capt.
Clark and party came in from the upper Camp & I with them
& informed us that they had Some difficulty with their truck
waggons as they broke Sundry times. Capt. Clark Surveyed
& measured the remainder of the portage, and looked out the
best way for the truck waggons & baggage to Go, and made
the distance to the upper camp to where we take water again
to be 18 miles a Strait course. they put up mile half mile ¼
mile & a half quarty mile Stakes as well as Several flags as
guides for the portage or carrying place &c. Capt. Lewis &
3 men Stayed at the upper Camp, to prepare the Iron boat
&c. &c.
