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Show taiu of a conic fonn, stauding seYeral miles in ~ul vance ul' thr castc•·n r:mgc of the Rocky mountains, ami now auout ei~ht miles from us, antl immediately on out' ro:ut, whidt wns in a norHnvcstclit·cction. Rut as om· ohjcct wa~ tu stril\c Mrdi<·inc 1·ivcr, and hunt down to its mouth in ot·•lct• to pl'o~ cut•c ~1-.ius fot· the food and g('al' nreessa1·y for the thl'Ce men "ho arc to uc left at the l'aiJs, none of whom at·c hunters, we detcl·minetl to lc•avc the road. and thm·cforo proccf'< lf'd due n01·tl•, through an Ol)en plain, till we t'l'a(\hcd Shi hcquaw creek, a strcnm aboui tw{·niy yards wide, '~ilh a considcrah]c (juantity of timber in its ]ow ground . Here we lmllcd aml eli ned, an(l now felt, hy the lnxm·y of out· food, that "e were appt·oaching once mot·e the plains of the Missom ·j, so t'ich tn :,.amc. 'Vc saw a great number of deer, goa t s, nolves, and ~onw barking sqnil'l'els, ami f'ot• tlac fil'st timP <'aught a. distn nt jWospcct of two buffa.loc. Arter dinncs · "e fu Jl1m ed the Shishequaw fol' six and a half mile , to il s cnh·ataee into l\1cdicinc l'iv{~l·, and along the ban]\S ol'this l'iv<'t' fo•· eight miles, when we encamped on a ]arge island. The bottoms conti nued low, level, and ext ensivc; the }Jlains too :n·c level; hut t he s:oH of ncithct• is fcr·tile, as it con isis of a light colntu·c{\ earth, intermixed with n large }II'OJWl't. ion of gt·avc1; the gl'ass iu both is gencraHy about uiue indaes higl1. Captain Lewis here shot a hu·ge antlrcmark~ ably white wolf. 'Vc had now made twenty .. ciglJt milt·s; ami !:~Ct out ('at·ly the next morning, Wt'duesday , 9; hnt t.hc air soon became very eoltl, and it Lcgau to rain. 'Vc l1a1lcd fot• a few minutes in some old Indian lodges, but fhuling that the rain rontinued we JH'O· cccded on, though we wm·e all wet to the skin, ami haHecl fol' dinner .at the distance of eight miles. The rain, howevCJ ·, continued, and we doter·mined to go no furthc1·. 'l'he river is auout eighty yards wide, with banks which, though low, ~we seldom overflowed; the bed is com1wscd of loose gravel and pebbles, the water clear and ra1,id, but uot so much as to impede the navigation. 'rhe bottoms are hantl· lfp the .,Uissom·i. 3!) !) some, wide, amllcvcl, antJ supplied with a considerable qua.utity of nart·ow-l<~afed cottonwood. Um·ing out• shol't t·ide we killed two tlcct· all(\ a bulfaJo(•, aml saw a nurnbct· or wolves and antclopcH. 'rlw next mo1·nin~; ca.l'ly, 'rhut'!:Hlay, 10, we set out, aml continued through a. c·onntt·y ~timilar to that of yesterday, with hoUoms of widcleafl'< l cot touwood occasionally aloug tile uot·d('I'S, thou;.;h for the most pa1·t the low gt·ouncls at·c wit hottt timbc •·· In the plains arc great quantities of two SJlrcics of prickly ]>car, now ju bloom. Gooscbcnies of the c·muruon t·ed kind al'c in abun•lauec and just l.)Cgiuniug to ripen, uut thcl'Q at·c no cunants. 'rhc rivet• has now wiclencd to an hundred yards; is d<.'c}•, ct·owded with islands, and. in many pa.L'ts rapid. At the distanec of seventeen miles, the tim her disappear·s totally from the l'ivct·boUoms. About this I>ar·t of the l'i ver, the wind, whidt had blown on our backs, and con~tantly IHit the elk on their guard, shifted round, arul we then shot three of them, aud ~L brownl>car. Captain Lewis halted 1o ·kin them, whi]e two of the men 1 ook the pack-hot·ses forward to seck for an f'ncampment. It was nine o'clock ueforc he overtook th em, atthe distarwc of seven miles in the Jirst gt•ove or cottonwood. 'rhcy had hct'n llllrsued as they came along by a. very hup;c beat·, on which they wer·e alhtid to iil·c, Jest their hol'S('S IJe' ing umweustomcd t.o the gun, might take ft·ight and tht·ow them. This cit·<·umstancc reminds us of the ferocity of these animals, when we were last ncar th.is place, and admoni ~ hes us to he Vt'I'Y cautious. 'Ve sa.w vast numl.H'I'S ofhuJf."lloe below us, which kept a dt·cadful bellowing dm·iug th' night. " 7itu all out• exet·tions we wct·c nna.ble to advance more than twenty-tour miles, owing t.o the mire, through which we a1·e obliged to travel, in couse.-1ucnce or the l'aiu. 'l'hc ncx.t mot·ning, however, Fl'iday, 11, was fair, and enlivened by great numbers of Lir,ls, who sant" dc)joolttfully in the clusters of coftunwood. " b 'l'he huntcl's were seut down l\leclicine rivcJ' to huut elk, while ca1) i~\in Le\\is cro~ sul the hjgh plain, in a direction |