20th. of April Satturday 1805
Wind a head from the N W. we set out at 7 oClock proceeded
on, soon after we set out a Bank fell in near one of
the canoes which like to have filled her with water, the wind
became hard and waves so rough that we proceeded with our
little canoes with much risque, our situation was such after
setting out that we
were obliged to pass round the 1st Point or
lay
exposed to the blustering winds & waves, in passing
round the Point
several canoes took in water as also our large
Perogue but without
injuring our stores &c much I proceeded
on to the
upper part of the Ist bend and came too at a butifull
Glade on the S.S. about I mile below Capt Lewis who
had
walked thro' the point, left his Coat & a Deer on the bank
which we took on board, a short distance below our Camp
I saw some
rafts on the S. S. near which, an Indian woman
was scaffeled in the Indian
form of Deposing their Dead and
fallen down She was or had been raised
about 6 feet, inclosed
in Several robes tightly laced around her, with her
dog Slays,
her bag of Different coloured earths paint small bones of
animals beaver nales and Several other little trinkets, also a
blue
jay, her dog was killed and lay near her. Capt. Lewis
joined me soon after I landed & informed me he had walked
several miles higher, & in his walk killed 2 Deer & wounded
an Elk & a Deer, our party shot in the river four beaver &
cought two, which were verry fat and much admired by the
men, after
we landed they killed 3 Elk 4 Gees & 2 Deer
we had some of our
Provisions &c. which got a little wet aired,
the
wind continued so hard that we were compelled to delay
all day. Saw
several buffalow lodged in the drift wood which
had been drouned in the
winter in passing the river; saw the
remains of 2 which had lodged on the
side of the bank & eat
by the bears.
Course distance
&c. 20th. of April
1805
South |
1 1/2 |
miles to the upper
part of a timbered bottom at a bluff
on the Lad
Side |
West |
1 1/2 |
miles to a
high timber on the Sd. Side passing over a
large Sand
point on S.S. |
N. 45°. W. |
1
1/2 |
mile to a tree in a Glade in a bend to the Starboard
Side
a sand pt. opsd. |
S. 45°
W. |
2 |
miles to a point of low willows on the Sd. Side. |
|
6
1/2 |
|
This morning was verry cold, some
snow about 2 oClock
from flying clouds, Some frost this morning & the
mud at
the edge of the water was frosed