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Show Lewis and Clarke's ExpedititJn Monday 8. In order mot·e fully to replace the notes of the river which he had lost, and which be wa)o. pl'fYcnted from sup11Iying by the storm of the twenty-ninth uh. captain Clarke iet out after breakfast, taking with him nearly the whole party with a view of shooting bufl'a.loe if there should be any ncar the falls. Arter getting some distance in the plains the men ~ere divided into squads, and he with two others ~ttruck the l\fissouri at the entrance of~fcdicine river, and thence proceeded down to the great cataract. He found that the immense herds of buffaloe have entirely disappeared, and he thought had gone below the falls. Having made the necessary measurementi, he returned through the plains and reached camp late in the evening; the whole party had killed only three buffaloe, three antelopes and a deer; they had ~Iso shot a small fox, and brought a living groundsquirrel somewhat larger than those of the United States. The day was warm and fair, but a slight rain feU in the afternoon. The boat having now become sufficiently dt·y, we gave it a coat of the composition, which after a proper interval was repeated, and the next morning, Tuesday 9, she was lanchcd into the water, and swam perfectly well: the seats were then fixed and the oars :fitted; but after we had loaded her, as well as the canoes, and were on the point of setting out a violent wind caused the waves to wet the baggage, so that we were forced to unload thim. The wind continued high till evening, when to our great disappointment we discovered that nearly all the composition had separated from the skins, and left the seams perfectly exposed; so that the boat now leaked very much. To repair this misfortune without pitch is impossible, and as none of that article is to be procured, we therefore, however rcluotantly, are obliged to abandon her, after having had so much labour in the construction. We now saw that the section of the boat covered with buff aloe skins on w bich hair had been left, answered better than the elk skins and ._ lealted but littlu; while that part whieh was covered with • Up the .Missouri. hair about one eighth of an inch, retained the composition perfectly, and remained sound and dry. From this we perceived that had we employed buffaloe instead of elk skins, and not singed them so closely as we have done, cat·efully · avoiding to cut the leather in sewing, the boat would have been iufficient even with the present composition, or had we iinged instead of shaving the elk skins we ~ight have succeeded. But we discovel'ed out• error too late: the buifaloe had deierted us, the travelling season was so fast advancing that we had no time to spare for experiments, and therefore Jlnding that she could he no longer useful she was sunk in the water, so ali to soften the skins and enable us the more easiJy to take her to pieces. It now became necessary to tH·ovide other means for tran1porting the baggage which we had intended to stow in her. For this purpose we shall want two eanoei, but for many miles below the mouth of the Muscleshell river to thili place, we have not seen a sin· gle tree fit to be used in that way. The hunters however who had hitherto been sent after timber, mention that there is a low ground on the opposite side of the river, about eight miles above us by land, and more than twice that distance by water, in which we may probably find trees large enough. for our t>urposes. Captain Clarke therefore determined to set out by land for that place with ten of the best workmen who would he occupied in building the canoes till the rest of the party, after taking the boat to pieces and making the necessary deposits, should transport the baggage and join them with the other six canoei. Wednesday 10. He accordingly passed over to the opposite side of the rivet· with his party, and proceede'l on eight miles by land, the di8tance by water being twenty-three and three quarter miles. Here he found two cottonwood trees, but on cutting them down, one proved to be hollow, S}>lit at the top iu falling, and both were much damaged at the bottom. Ha searched the neighboul'11ood but could find none which would suit better, aud therefore was obliged to make use of those |