Thursday June 12th. 1806.
All our hunters except Gibson returned about noon; none
of them had killed any thing except Shields who brought with
him two deer. in the evening they resumed their hunt and
remained out all night. an Indian visited us this evening and
Spent the night at our camp. Whitehouse returned with his
horse at 1 P. M. the days are very worm and the Musquetors
our old companions have become very troublesome.
The Cutnose informed us on the 10th. before we left him that
two young Chiefs would overtake us with a view to accompany
us to the Falls of the Missouri and probably to the Seat of our
Governmt. nothing interesting occured in the course of this
day. our camp is agreeably situated in a point of timbered
land on the eastern borders of an extensive leavel and butifull
prarie which is intersected by several small branches near the
bank of one of which our camp is placed. the quawmash is
now in blume at a Short distance it resembles a lake of fine
clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first Sight I
could have sworn it was water.
