[Clark:]
May the 1st.. Wednesday 1805.
We set out at sun rise under a stiff Breeze from the East,
the morning cool & cloudy. one man J. Shields sick with
rhumetism. one of the men (Shannon) shot a Gull or pleaver,
which is about the Size of an Indian hen, with a Sharp pointed
bill turning up & 4 Inches long, the head and neck of a light
brown, the breast, the under feathers of the 2nd and
3d. joint of
the wings, the Short feathers on the
upper part of the 3rd joint
of the wings, down the
back the rump & tail white. The
large feathers of the 1st joints of the wing the upper feathers
of the 2d joints of the wings, on the body on the joints of the
wing and the bill is black. the legs long and of a skie blue.
The
feet webed &c. This fowl may be properly stiled the
Missouri Pleaver. the wind became verry Hard and we put
too on the
L. Side, as the wind continued with some degree of
violence and the waves
too high for the Canoes we were obliged
to stay all day
Course & Distance 1st. of
May
|
miles |
|
| N.
88°. W. |
1 1/2 |
to the upper point of some high
timber in a bend to
the Std.
Side |
| South |
2 |
to the upper
part of a timber Ld Side |
| S.
26°. W. |
1 1/2 |
to a Bluff on the Lard Side |
| S. 60°.
W |
1 |
to a Single tree on a point [on] the Lard
Side |
| West |
2 |
to a point [of]
wood land Lard Side |
| S. 60°.
W. |
2 |
to a wood at the upper part of an elivated plain
on the
S. Side, one mile short of which we
camped |
|
10 |
|
