June 27th. Thursday 1805.
a fair warm morning wind from the S.E. and moderate.
Serjt. Pryor something better this morning, I proceed to finish
a rough draugh[t] of the river & Distances to leave at this
place, the wormest day we have had this year, at 4 oClock
the Party returned from the head of the portage soon after
it began to hail and rain hard and continued for a fiew minits
& ceased for an hour and began to rain again with a heavey
wind from the N. W. I refresh the men with a drink of grog
The river beginning to rise a little the water is coloured a
redish brown, the small streams, discharges in great torrents,
and partake of the choler of the earth over which it passes,
a great part of which is light & of a redish brown. Several
Buffalow pass drowned in passing over the falls cloudy all
night, cold
