Tuesday April 23rd.
Set out at an early hour this morning, about nine A.M.
the wind arose, and shortly after became so violent that we
were unabled to proceed, in short it was with much
difficulty
and some risk that I was enabled to get the canoes and perogues
into a place of tolerable safety, there
being no timber on
either side of the river at this place, some of the
canoes shiped
water, and wet several parsels of their lading, which I
directed
to be opened and aired. we remained untill five in the evening
when the wind abating in some measure, we
reloaded, and
proceeded, shortly after we were joined by Capt. Clark who
had walked on shore this morning, and passing through the
bottom
lands had fallen on the river some miles above, and
concluding that the
wind had detained us, came down the river
in surch of us. he had killed
three black-taled, or mule deer,
and a buffaloe Calf, in the course of his
ramble, these hard
winds, being so frequently repeated, become a serious
source
of detention to us. incamped on the Stard.
side.[32]
Courses and
distances of the 23rd.
April.
|
|
Miles |
| S.
25°. E. |
to a point of timbered land on Stard.- |
2.
1/2 |
| S. |
along this Stard. point of woodland. a high bluff
opposite |
1. |
| S. 78. W. |
to a
cops of woods, under a hill on Stard. in a
bend |
4. |
| S. 14. E. |
to a point
of high timber in a Lard. bend passing the
extremity
of a little bay Std. |
4
1/2 |
| S. 25. W. |
to a point of woodland on
the Lard. side. |
1
1/2 |
|
|
13
1/2 |
