[Clark:]
June 12th. 1805 Wednesday
last night was clear and cold, this morning fair we set out
at 8 oClock & proceeded on verry well wind from the S.W.
The enterpreters wife verry sick so much so that I move her
into the back part of our covered part of the Perogue which is
cool, her own situation being a verry hot one in the bottom of
the Perogue exposed to the Sun. Saw emence N
o. of swallows
in the 1
st. bluff on the Lar
d. Side, water verry swift, the bluff
are blackish clay & coal for about 80 feet, the earth above
that for 30 or 40 feet is a brownish yellow, a number of bars
of corse gravil and stones of different shape & size &
c. Saw a
number of rattle snakes to day one of the men cought one by
the head in catchi
g hold of a bush on which his head lay
reclined three canoes were in great danger to day one diped
water, another very near turning over &
c. at 2 oClock P M
a fiew drops of rain I walked thro' a point and killed a Buck
Elk & Deer, and we camped on the Star
d Side, the Interpreters
woman verry sick one man have a fellon riseing on his
hand one other with the Tooth ake has taken cold in the
Jaw &
c.
Course & distance the 12th.. of June 1805
|
mile |
|
| S. 30°. W. |
1 |
to a point on the Lard shore passd. 3 Islands |
| South |
1 |
to a Lard point of an Island |
| S. 60°. E. |
2 |
to a tree on the Lard Side, passd. 2 Small Islands |
| N. 50°. E |
1 |
to an object in the Lard bend opsd. an Island |
| S. 50°. E |
1 1/2 |
to a tree on the Lard. Side pasd. the Isld. |
| S. 10° W. |
1 |
to a point on the Stard. Side |
| S. 40°. W. |
1/2 |
to a point of wood on the Stard Side Passd. 2 Islands
one small |
| S. 80°. W |
1/2 |
to a bluff point on Stard. Side passd. a Isld. |
| West |
1/2 |
to the lower point of a small Island |
| S. 30°. E. |
1 1/2 |
to a high black bluff in a bend Lard. Side |
| S. 50°. W. |
1 1/2 |
to a tree under a hill Lard. Side passed four Islands two
on each side |
| West |
3 |
to the grog spring at the Stard. Side at which place the
Little river which falls into the North fork is
100 yards distant |
| N. 45°. E |
1 3/4 |
to a low bluff on the Stard Side passd. a point on Std. &
one of the Lard Side |
| East |
1 |
to a Bluff on the Lard Side |
| West |
1/4 |
to a low Bluff at the upper part of a wood on the
Stard Side, opposit a Island. here we camped at a
large Indian encampment about 12 months past |
|
miles 18 |
|
