[Lewis:]
Wednesday April 17th. 1805.
A delightfull morning, set out at an erly hour. the country
th[r]ough which we passed to day was much the same as that
discribed of yesterday; there wase more appearance of birnt
hills, furnishing large
quanties of lava and pumice stone; of
the latter some pieces were seen
floating down the river.
Capt. Clark walked on shore this morning on the
Stard. side,
and did not join us untill half after six
in the evening. he
informed me that he had seen the remains of the
Assinniboin
encampments in every point of woodland through which he
had passed. we saw immence quantities of game in every
direction
around us as we passed up the river; consisting of
herds of Buffaloe, Elk,
and Antelopes with some deer and
woolves. tho' we continue to see many
tracks of the bear we
have seen but very few of them, and those are at a
great distance
generally runing from us; I
the[re]fore presume that
they are extreemly wary and shy; the Indian
account of them
dose not corrispond with our experience so far. one black
bear passed near the perogues on the 16th. and was
seen by
myself and the party but he so quickly disappeared that we
did not shoot at him. at the place we halted to dine on the
Lard. side we met with a herd of buffaloe of which I killed
the fatest as I concieved among them, however on examining
it I
found it so poar that I thought it unfit for uce and only
took the tongue;
the party killed another which was still
more lean. just before we
encamped this evening we saw
some
tracks of Indians who had passed about 24 hours; they
left four rafts of
tim[ber] on the Star
d. side, on which they had
passed.
we supposed them to have been a party of the
Assinniboins who had been to
war against the rocky Mountain
Indians, and
then on their return. Capt. Clark saw a
Curlou to-day. there were three
beaver taken this morning
by the party. the men prefer the flesh of this
anamal, to that
of any other which we have, or are able to procure at this
moment. I eat very heartily of the beaver myself, and think
it
excellent; particularly the tale, and liver we had a fair
wind today which
enabled us to sail the greater part of the
distance we have travled,
encamped on the Lar
d. shore the
extremity of the last
course.
Courses and distances of the
17th.
| S. 70. W. |
to a point
of willows on the Stard.
side |
3. |
| S. 75. W. |
along the
Stard. point, opposite to a
bluff |
1/2. |
| N. 75. W. |
to a
wood in a bend on the Std.
side |
3. |
| N. 50. W. |
to a point
of woodland Stard. side |
3.
1/2. |
| S. 60. W. |
to a point of woodland on
Stard. side opposite to a
bluff on Lard, just above
which, a creek falls in on
the Lard. about 10 yards
wide. |
.3/4 |
| N. 80. W. |
to a
willow point on the Lard. side. |
3.
1/4 |
| S. 85. W. |
to a point of woodland
Lard. opposite to a bluff on
Stard. side |
3.
3/4 |
| West. |
Along the Lard. point, opposite to a high bluff above
which a small run
falls in |
1. |
| S. 40. W. |
along
the same point of woodland Lard.
side. |
1 |
| S. 30. W. |
along the
Lard. side to a willow
point |
.1/4 |
| S. 14. W. |
to the
upper part of the high timber on the Stard.
side |
4. |
| S. 28. W. |
to a point
of woodland on the Lard. side where we
encamped for
the night |
2 |
|
|
Miles
.26 |
