27th. of April
Satturday 1805
after take[ing] the azmuth of the Sun &
brackfasting we
set out wind moderate & a head, at 11 oClock the wind
rose and continued to blow verry hard a head from the N. W.
untill 4
oClock PM, which blew the sand off the Points in
such clouds as almost
covered us on the opposit bank, at 4
I set out from my
unpleasent Situation and proceeded on,
Capt. Lewis
walked on shore in the Point to examine & view
the Countrey and could
not get to the boats untill night, Saw
great numbers of Goats or
antilopes, Elk, Swan Gees & Ducks,
no buffalow to day I saw several
beaver and much sign, I
shot one in the head which imediately sunk, altho
the game
of different kinds are in abundance we kill nothing but what
we can make use of
Course,
distance the 27th. of April
| N. 9°.
E |
1 |
mile to the upper part of the wood in the point
and commencement
of a butifull elivated
plain at which place
the Yellow Stone river is about 250 yards distant
from
the Mi[s]souri |
| West |
1 |
mile to
the lower part of the timber in a bend to the
Lard.
Side back of which and on the river below is [a]
high bottom, and the
upper plains are not so high as
below and butifull as far as can be
seen |
| N. 32°. W |
3 |
miles
to a point of the timbered bottom on the Lad. Side
opposit a low bluff between two points of wooded
bottom 1/2 a mile
distant from each a butifull plain
back, several high open situations
between the wood
land in the S. bend. |
| West
miles |
3/8 |
miles to a point of small Willows on the
Sd. Side opposit
a low white bluff bordering a
butifull riseing Plain,
some wood land below this bluff on the L.S. and a
thick wooded bottom on the S. Side in this course
the river is wide
and crouded with sand bars, a little
above the low bluff on the L.S. a
timbered bottom
commences, here the countrey runs gradually from
the
river on the L.S. |
