[Clark:]
21st.. of April Sunday
1805.
Set out early the wind gentle & from the N.W. the
river being verry crooked, I concluded to walk through the
point,
the countrey on either side is verry similar to that we
have passed, Saw
an emence number of Elk & Buffalow, also
Deer Antelopes Geese Ducks
& a fiew Swan, the Buffalow
is about Calveing I killed a Buffalow
& 4 Deer in my walk
to day, the party killed 2
deer 2 beaver & 4 Buffalow Calves,
which was verry
good veele. I saw old camps of Indians on
the L. Side, we passed 1 large
& 2 small creeks on the L.
Side neither of them discharge any water
into the river, in
the evening the wind became verry hard a head, we made
camp at a late hour which was on the L. Side a little above the
mouth of White Earth River which falls in on the
Stad Side
and is 60 yds. wide, several mls. up
miles Corse distance &c. 21d of
ap1.
| S. 18°. E |
1
1/2 |
ml. to a sand pt. S. S. opsd. a bluff on the L.S. |
| N. 75°.
W |
1/2 |
to a pt. of high timber on
the S.Sd. opsd. a
Bluff |
| N. 40°. W |
3 1/2 |
to
a willow pt. L. Sd. opsd. a Bluff on the S.Sd. |
| N. 60°. W |
4
1/2 |
to a pt. of wood land on the S.Sd. opsd. a bluff just
below which a
creek falls in on the L.S. |
| N. 25°.
E |
2 |
to a pt. of wood land on the
L.Sd. opposd. to a high bluff
on
the Stard. Side |
| N. 10°
W |
2 |
to the upper part of a low bluff on the S.Sd. opsd. to a
pt.
of timber on the L. Side |
| N 50° W |
2
1/2 |
miles to the upper part of a timber at a high short
bluff
on the Lard. Side, passed white earth river at 1/2
mile on the Sd.
Side |
| miles |
16
1/2 |
|
