Friday 20th.. Sept. 1805.
a cold frosty morning. we eat a fiew peas & a little greece
which was the verry last kind of eatables of any kind we had
except a little portable Soup. we got up our horses except
one which detained us untill about 8 oClock before we found
him. we then load up our horses and Set out. proceeded on
up the creek a Short distance and found a line which Capt. Clark
had left with the meat of a horse which they found and killed
as they had killed nothing after they left us only three prarie
hens or Phesants. we took the horse meat and put it on our
horses and proceeded on a Short distance further. then left
the creek and went over a mountain S. W. then followed
down a ridge, came to a Spring run and halted and dined
Sumptiously on our horse meat. one horse Strayed from us
which had on him a pear of portmantaus which had in it Some
marchandize and Cap
t. Lewis winter cloaths &c. 2 men Sent
back to the creek to hunt him. we proceeded on up and
down Several hills and followed a ridge where the timber was
fell So thick across the trail that we could hardly git along.
our horses got Stung by the yallow wasps. we did not find
any water to Camp untill after dark, and then Camped on a
ridge found a little water in a deep gulley a Short distance
from us. the different kinds of pine continues as usal. considerable
of Strait handsome timber on these ridges, which resembles
white ceeder but is called Arbervity no other kind
except the pine & bolsom fer, all of which grows verry tall and
Strait. the mountains not So high as back but verry broken.
Came about 14 miles this day. the plains appear Some distance
off yet. it is twice as far as we expected where we first
discovred it from a high mountain.
