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[Lewis:]

Tuesday April 30th. 1805.

Set out at sunrise. the wind blew hard all last night, and
continued to blow pretty hard all day, but not so much, as to
compell us to ly by. the country as usual is bare of timber;
the river bottoms are level and fertile and extensive, but possess
but little timber and that of an indifferent quality even of it's
kind; principally low cottonwood, either too small for building,

or for plank, or broken and dead at top and unsound in
the center of the trunk. saw great quantities of game as usual.
Capt. Clark walked on shore the greater part of the day, the
Interpreter, Charbono and his Indian woman attended him.
past some old Indian lodges built of drift wood; they appear
to be of antient date and not recently inhabited. I walked on
shore this evening and killed a buck Elk, in tolerable order;
it appeared to me to be the largest I had seen, and was therefore
induced to measure it; found it five feet three inches from
the point of the hoof, to the top of the sholders; the leg and
hoof being placed as nearly as possible in the same position
they would have been had the anamal been standing.

Courses and distances of 30th April.

                       

		Miles
S. 15° W.	to a point of timbered land on the Stard. side passing a sand point at 3/4 of a Me. Lard.	2 1/2
S. 22. W.	to the upper point of the high timber in the center of a bend Lard. side at the commencement of a bluff	1 1/2
S. 85. W.	to a point of timbered land on Stard. side opposite to a bluff.	1.
S. 75. W.	to a point of timber at the upper part of a bluff in a bend on Lard. side.	.1/2
N. 40. W.	to the point of a sandbar on the Lard. side, passing a willow point at two miles and a large sandbar on Stard.	5.
S. 40. W.	to a point of woodland on Stard. opposite to a bluff on Lard. the river making a considerable bend on Lard. side	3 1/2
N. 70. W.	to a point of woodland on the Lard. side, passing, at the commencement of this course, a large sand Island in the Lard. bend.	3.
S. 25. W.	to the upper part of the high timber on the Lard. side.	2 1/2
West.	to a point of high timber on the Lard. side, a large sand island in the bend to the Stard. side.	3 1/2
N. 80. W.	to a point of high woods on the Lard. side opposite to which we encamped on a sandbar Stard. side[4]	1
	Miles	24.