Friday 5th September 1806
The Musquetors being so excessively tormenting that the
party was all on board and we set out at day light and proceeded
on very well. here the river is bordered on both [sides]
with timber &c. becoms much narrower more crooked and
the current more rapid and crouded with Snags or Sawyers
than it is above, and continus So all day. We did not meet
with McClellin as we expected at the Creek. the report of
the guns which was heard must have been the Mahars who
most probably have just arrived at their village from hunting
the buffalow. this is a season they usialy return to their village
to secure their crops of corn Beens punkins &c &c. proceeded
on very well passd the blue Stone bluff[11]
at 3 P. M. here the
river leaves the high lands and meanders through a low rich
bottom. Encamped on the S. W. Side on a Sand bar at a
cut off a little below our Encampment of the 9th. of August
1804. haveing made 73 Miles to day. Capt. Lewis still in a
convelesent State. We Saw no game on the Shores to day
worth killing only such as pelicans Geese ducks, Eagles and
Hawks &c.
