May 22nd Tuesday 1804—
A Cloudy Morning Delay one hour for 4 french men who
got liberty to return to arrange Some business they had
forgotten
in Town, at 6 oClock we proceeded
on, passed Several
small farms on the bank, and a large creek on the Lbd. Side
Called Bonom [bon homme] a
Camp of Kickapoos[19]
on the
St. Side (An Indian nation residing on the heads of Kaskaskis &
Illinois river 90 miles N.E. of the mouth of the Missouri, & hunt
occasionally on the Missouri)
Those Indians told me several
days ago that they would
Come on and hunt and by the time I got to their
Camp they
would have Some provisions for us, We camped in a Bend
at
the Mo: of a Small creek, Soon after we came too the
Indians arrived with
4 Deer as a Present, for which we gave
them two qts.
of Whiskey
Course & Distance the
22nd May
| S 60°.
W. |
3 |
Ms. to a pt. Lbd Side |
| S
43°. W. |
4 |
Ms. to a pt. Stbd.
Side |
| West |
3 1/2 |
Ms. to a pt. on Stbd.
Sd. psd. Bonom |
| S. 75°. W. |
7
1/2 |
Ms. to a pt. in Bend to
Stbd. Side at the Mo.
of Osage Womans R[20]
|
|
18 |
|
This day we passed Several Islands, and Some high lands
on the Starboard Side, verry hard water.
