Monday 15th of September 1806
we set out early with a Stiff Breeze a head saw Several
deer Swiming the river soon after we Set out. at 11 A. M.
passed the enterance of the Kanzas river which was very low,
about a mile below we landed and Capt. Lewis and my self
assended a hill which appeared to have a commanding situation
for a fort, the Shore is bold and rocky imediately at the
foot of the hill, from the top of the hill you have a perfect
command of the river, this hill fronts the Kanzas and has a
view of the Missouri a Short distance above that river. we
landed one time only to let the men geather Pappaws or the
custard apple of which this country abounds, and the men are
very fond of. we discovered a Buck Elk on a Small Island,
and sent the 2 fields and Shannon in pursute of it they soon
came up with and killed the Elk, he was large and in fine
order we had his flesh Secured and divided. as the winds
were unfavourable the greater part of the day we only decended
49 Miles and encamped a Short distance Above Hay cabin
Creek. we are not tormented by the Musquetors in this
lower portion of the river, as we were above the river platt
and as high up as the Rochejhone and for a fiew miles up that
river, and above its' enterance into the Missouri. we passd. some
of the most charming bottom lands to day and the uplands by
no means bad, all well timberd. the weather disagreeably worm
and if it was not for the constant winds which blow from the
S and S E. we should be almost suficated comeing out of a
northern Country open and Cool between the Latds. of 46d. and
49th North in which we had been for nearly two years, rapidly
decending into a woody country in a wormer climate between
the Lat
ds. 38° & 39° North is probably the cause of our experiencing
the heat much more senceable than those who have
continued within the paralel of Latitude.
