Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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 | The ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF
LEWIS AND CLARK Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 |  |
16th June Satturday 1804—
Set out at 7 oClock at about a mile 1/2
we came to the
Camp of our hunters, they had two Bear & two Deer, proceeded
on pass a Island on the S. S. a heavy
rain came on &
lasted a Short time, we came to on the S. S. in a
Prarie at the
place where Mr. Mackey lais down a old
french fort,[47]
I could
See no traces of a Settlement of any kind, in the plain I discovered
a kind of Grass resembling Timothey
which appeared
well Calculated for Hay. this Plain is verry extensive in
the
evening I walked on the S. S. to see if any timber was convt.
to make Oars, which we were much in want of, I found
some
indifferent timber and Struck the river above the Boat at a
bad
Sand bar, the worst I had Seen which the boat must pass
or Drop back
Several Miles & Stem a Swift Current on the
the Streem which was difficult Dangerious We came to above
this place at Dark and Camped in a bad place, the Mosquitoes
and Ticks are noumerous & bad.
| N. 68.° W. | 2 1/2 | Ms. to a pt. L. S. pass Isd. S. S. |
| West | 2 | Ms. to a blg. in Snag Isd. L. S. |
| S. 85 W. | 1 | Ml. on L. S. a bad Sand Mid. |
| S. 61 W. | 1 | Ml. on L. S. do do and 2 sm. Isds.. |
| S. 30 W. | 2 1/2 | Ms. to a pt. S. S. passed upr Sd. Isd. |
| S. 40 W | 1 | Ml. alg. S. S. an Isd. Mdl. & bad ps |
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Lewis's map of 1806
indicates "Mr. J. Mackay's route," which embraces
most of the valley of
the Niobrara River; this Mackay may be the person referred to
in the text.
Biddle's narrative mentions (i, p. 44) a man of this name who had in
1795–96 a trading establishment farther up the Missouri. The French
fort was
probably the post (Fort Orleans) established by Bourgmont (1723)
not far (according
to Coues) from the Malta Bend of the Missouri (see
Margry's Découvertes et établissements,
vi, p.
393; Le Page du Pratz's Louisiane, i, p. 324; and Coues's
L. and
C., i, p. 24, note
51).
The exact site of Fort Orleans is not definitely known, and there
are diverse
opinions regarding it. Hon. Walter B. Douglas, of St. Louis,
thinks that the fort
was on "the north bank of the Missouri, above the
mouth of Wakenda Creek, in
what is now Carroll County, and 15 to 20 miles
above the town of Brunswick, which
stands a little below the place where
was the old mouth of Grand River (about six or
seven miles from its
present entrance). The action of the river-current has caused
great
changes in the course of both rivers, even within the last thirty years." Later
there was another French post upon the river at a village of the Kansas
Indians, not far
from the present site of Fort Leavenworth.—Ed.
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