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Show Lew1.1 a1t".,' Clarke's Expedition 70 . . • el It was situated on a f h barkmg-squn r • large village o t e . d a space of nine hundred 1. 't and covet e d 'd gentle dec IVI y, and eight hundred yar s Wl e; and seventy yards long, We then resumed out• com·s~, we killed four of theml.f 'l passed two islands on the . d a ha IDl cs 'l and durmg five an ed at the distance of sixteen mi es, north, and then encamp . . d . st above a small run. 'd f tlle river, an JU . b on the south Sl e o d but in the afternoon Jt e- . 1 ad been clou y' . d The mornmg 1 h t ,u1'nd which contmue . b hi h nort wes ,~ ' ~n raining, Wit a g h . ht Tbe country seen to- ~- t part of t e mg • during the grea er . f 1 land t•ising into uneven . f row strips o ow ' day consists o nur d d t the distance of three b' l arc succee e ' a h grounds, w . JC l l l . but without any timber. T e . h and leve p ams, d miles, by riC. · d d crow d e d 'v,, t'tlt sall(lbars. Elk, eer, rh·er itself IS WrI e, an d larO"e norcupine, were our n an a very b r squirrels, a pe JCa ' t et·e seen but not caugllt. . d . me foxes oo w ' game tlus ay' ~o b rvcd a man riding on horseback ln the mornmg we o sed - ·c much Illeascd to find down toward s t h e b oat ' an we '' erf our pat•ty, for whose . G orge Shannon, one o . that tt was e Our two horses havmg had been vei'Y uneasy. safety we. tl f August he was sent to search d f . m us on the 26 1 o ' straye to After he had found them be attempted to t·e-for them. . some other tracks, which must have been • • 8 but seemg b JOm u 'f Indians and which he mistook for our own, e con· those o ' . h d and bad been for sixteen days eluded t.hat we were a ea : b During the first . the bank of the river a ove us. followdmg l e exhausted his bullets, and was then nearly four ays 1 1 d n a few d b . g obliged to subsist, for twe ve ays, o starve , em ki e of a d a rabbit which be killed by rna ng us grapes~ an f t' k for a ball. One of his horses gave out, bard 1nece o s tc for d was left behind; the other he kept as a last res~urc~ vn an . . " of overtaking us, he was returmng o' food Dcspatrmo d as on • . . hopes of meeting some other boat; an w the river, 1n £ t nate as the point of killing his horse, when he was so or u to join us. llp the e~llissouri. 71 \Vedncsday, September 12. The day was dark and cloudy; the wind from the northwest. At a short distance we reached an island in the middle of the river, which is covered with timber, a rare object now. 'Ve with gt·('at difficulty were enabled to struggle through the sandbars, the water being very rapid and shallow, so that we were several hours in making a mile. Several times the boat wheeled on the bar, and the men were obliged to jump out and prevent .be.r ft·om upsetting; at others, after making a way up one channel, the shoalncss of the water forced us back to seek the deep channel. W cad vanced only four miles in the whole day and encamped on the south. Along both sides of the river are high grounds; on the scuthern side particularly, they form dark bluffs, in which ma.y be observed slate and coal intermixed. 'Ve saw also several villages of barking-squirrels; great numbers of growsc, and three foxes. SeiJtembet•1S, Thursday. We made twelve miles to-day through a number of sandbars, wl1ich make it difficult to find the }>roper channel. The hills on each side are high, and separated from the river by a narrow plain on its borders. On the north, these lowlands are covered in part with timber, and great (juantities of grapes, which arc now ripe: on the south we found plenty of plums, but they arc not yet ritlc; and near the dark bluffs, a run tainted with allum and copperas; the southern side being more strongly impregnated with minerals than the northern. Last night four beaver were caught in the traps; a porcupine was shot as it was upon a cottontrce, i'eeding on its leaves and branches. We encamped on the north side, opposite to a small willow island. At night the mosquitoes were very troublesome, though the weather was eold and rainy and the wind from the northwest. Friday, September 1~. At two miles we I·ea.ched a round island on the not·thern side; at about five, a run on the south; two and a half miles further, a small creek; and at nine miles encamped near the month of a creek, on the same |