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Show eache nt t)Je lower end of the pot•tage, l'dm·nc<l; hut had been prcvcnto<l ft·om r cachinb that J'lacc h.Y a sing ulat· arl venttwe. Just as he ardvcd near· 'VHlow rnn, he appr·oachctl a thicket of lwush, in which was a white brar, which l1c did not djscover till he was within ten f'cct or him: his hoJ•sc started, and wlwelin~ s ucldcnly round, tht·rw l\1· rral almost immediately undrt· the b •at·, who stat·tcd up i,ht·wtly, and flnding the bear raising himsdl' on his ltind f'eet to attack him, stt·uek him on the heatl with the butt c.~•Hl of' his musket; the blow was so ,·iolcnt that it IJ•·ol e the ht·c.•(•th of the muskc.·t and knocked the bern· to the gr·ouncl. and ucfin·c he T1·ecove1'ed. 1\I'Ncal seeing a \YilJow tree dose IJy, spt·ang up, ilnd there n•.maincd while the bear elo~ely guaJ•(lcd tho foot ofthc tree until Jatc in the af((~l'tlOOn. Jle then went ofl~ aml l\1'Ncal Leing t·clcasc•l caUtc down, and h;ning found ltis )JOl'SC, which )Jad strayed ofl' to the dis lance ol' two miles, t·etm·ncd to camp. 'J'hes<· auim~1ls ar ·, j1Hieed, of a most. extraot·dinat·y fe~·o c ity, ancl it iH ma.Ue l' or wond<·J·, that iu all om· cncountet·s we have had the good fot·tuue to c . cape. 'Vc arc now tr·oublcc.l with anothe•· P-ncmy, not quite so daugel'ous, though even more dhmgr·eca.hlc: these ar·c tho musquctoes, who now inlcst us in such lllJI'tads. that we frc<1ueutly get them into out• tht·oats wl•cn IH'cathiug. and the dog c' en howls with the tot•ture th~y occa!Sion. Having now accomplished the object or our stay, captain JJeWi!i de· tcrmined to leave serjt"'ant. Gass with two HWil and fou•· Jaor· srs to assist the parfy who ape expected to cat'J'Y our· rflccts ovct• the I>ortage, wlJilst he, with DrewyeJ·, nml the two l 1"icl<ls, with six horses, IH'Oee(•ded to the som·ccs of Maria's rivCJ·. Accordingly, early in the morniug, 'Vednesday 16, captain Lewis descended iu a skiu canoe t.o the lower side of ~fcdicinc river, where the horses lmd previously been sent, and then rode with his I>arty to the fall of forty-seven feet, whtwc 1tc halted for two hours to dine, and took a sl~etch of the fall. In ilic aftcruoon t.bcy tn·occcdec.l to the grtat fall s, ncar which they sl<>pt under a t~ltelviug t•ock, with a happy ('Xc mption f"t·om musquctoes. These falls lm"c lost much of thcit· gt·;.uulcur since we saw them, the river· lwing mul'lt low<'l' now than a.t that time.', though they !-'till foi'Hl a most tmhlime SflCCt~.elc. As we camcaloug, we met Hev~ra) while lu~:u·, hut they did uot venture tu attat·k us. 'l'ht'l'e wt· t·e !Jut frw bnflaloc, howeYe• ·, the laq;-c ha.vju~ lH'intipallJ Jlassctl the river, directed thcil· course downwnt·ds. 'l'hct·e ;.tn:, at.~ usual, gPcat number, or g-oals aiHl ant dopes di .. pet· ~cll 'hrough the Jllains, an<l lat·gr flod\,s uf t~(·cse, w lai(~h rahe t heil· youu;.; aiJout t he entrance of .. Medicine river. 'Vc obstrvc ltc,·c abo the mwlmo, or as it i!S somctiuws ca.llt·d, the raincr.nv, a bil'd which. i! not known cithea· within or west or the Rocliy mountains. Thm· ·day, 17. A l'l cr tal\ing a second draught of thc falls, Cctptain Le vi~ dit'C(~tctl his eot11·se N. J ou ,V. with an intention of' strikiuoo l\1.aria·s rivet· at the }>Oint to which he hatl ascended it in 1801. '['hr eounf••y is here sprcml into wide and level plains, swelling like the ocean, in which the view is unintc•·a·upted by a sint.;-lo tl·<·c or shruh, and is diTct ·silicd only hy the moving hct·ds or IJotfaloc. '.rhe soil consists of a lihh t-eoloUl·cd earth, intermixed with a large proportion of uo~u·se gl'avel without sancl, and is by no means so fertile as either the plains or the Columuia, 01' those lowCL' down the 1\li ouri. 'Vh('n dt·y it t•r·aeks, autl is hat•d aml thirsty while in its wet state: it is as sof't and slimy as soap. 'rhf• gt·ass is natm•ally short, aud at this time is still more so fi·om the t·cccnt llassagc of the IJuilhloc. Among the IJirds which we met was the party-colourcfl plovrr·, \\ ith the head and neck of a h•·ick r ed, a hird which frcqut>nts the little ponds seat1 cr(•d over the plains. Aftcl' travelling twenty miles we reached Tansy river, and as wo could not go as rat• as l\Iaria's rjve•· this evening, and perhallS not find either wood or water before we arrived there, we determined to encamp. As we approachctl the t•ivcr, we saw the fresh track of a bleeding buffaloc, a circumiitance by no meau!l pleasaut, as 1t indicated the Indians lmfl been lmnting, and "ere not far from us. 'fh~ tribe's who prineia |