23rd.. of April 1805
A cold morning at about 9 oClock the wind as usial rose
from the N W and continued to blow verry hard untill late in
the evening I walked on Shore after brackfast in my walk
on the S Side passed
through extensive bottoms of timber intersperced
with glades & low open plains, I killed 3 mule or
black tail
Deer, which was in tolerable order, Saw Several
others, I also killed a
Buffalow calf which was verry fine, I
struck the river above the Perogus
which had come too in a
bend to the
L.S. to shelter from the wind which had become
violently hard, I joined
Cap
t Lewis in the evening & after
the winds
falling which was late in the evening we proceeded
on & encamped on
the S.S. The winds of this countrey which
blow with some violence almost
every day, has become a serious
obstruction in our progression onward, as
we cant move when
the wind is high with[out] great risque, and [if] there
was no
risque the winds is generally a head and often too violent to
proceed
Course & Distance
23d. April
| S. 25° E |
2
1/2 |
miles to a point of timbered land on the Starboard
Side |
| South |
1 |
mile on the
Sd point, of wood land a high Bluff
opposit. |
| S. 78°.
W. |
4 |
miles to a copse of woods under a hill to the
Sd. Side in
a bend |
| S.
14°. E. |
4 1/2 |
miles to a point of high timber in a
larboard bend,
passing the enterence of a little bay to
S.S. |
| S. 25°. W. |
1
1/2 |
miles to a point of woods on the Ld.
Side |
| miles |
13
1/2 |
|
