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Show 22 Lewis and Ul£u•kt's Expedition sperscd with cot>ses of timber. and waterml hy Independence creek. On this bank forme1·ly stoOtl the second village of the Kanzas; from the remains it must have been once a large town. We passed several had sandbars, and a small ereek to the south, whieh we called Yellow Oebre creek, from a l•ank of that mineral a little above it. The river continues to fall. On the sbort>s arc great quantities of ~urn me•· and fall grapes, berries and wild roses. Deer is not so abundant as usual, but there are numerous tracks ot' elk at·ound us. We encamped at ten miles distance on the south side undet• a high bank, opposite to which was a low lan<l covered with tall l'usbes, and some timber. July 6. We set sail. and at one mile passed a sandbar, three miles further an island, a prairie to the north, at the distance of four miles called Reevey's prairie, after a man who was killed there; at whi<>.h place the river is confined to a very narrow channel, and by a sandbar from th~ south. Four miles beyond is another sandbar terminated by a small willow island, and forming a 'Very considerable bend in the river towards the north The sand of the bar is light, inter~ mixed with small pebbles and some pit coal. The river falls slowly, an<l, owing either to the muddiness of its water, ot• the extreme heat of the weather, the men persph·e p•·ofusely. We encamped on the south having made twelve miles. The bird called whip-poor-will sat on the boat for some time. In the morning, July 7th, the rapidity of the water obliged us to draw the boat along with ropes. At six and three quarter miles, we came to a sandbar, at a point op1,osite a fine rich prairie on the north, called St. Michael's. The prairies ofthis neighbourhood have the appearance of distinct farms, divided by narrow strips of woodland, which folio" the bordet•s of the small runs leading to the river. Above thb. about a mile, is a cliff of yellow clay on the not·tll. At four o'clock we passed a narrow part of the chalmel, where the water is confined within a bed of two hundred yards wide, the current running directly against the southern bank with Up tlte .Missouri. no sand on the north to confine it or break its force. We made fourteen miles, and halted on the north, after \vhieh we bad a violent gust about seven o'clock. One of the hunters saw in a pond to the north which we passed yestf'rday anum·ber of young swans. We saw a large rat, and killed a woH·. Another of our men had a stroke of the sun; ))e was bled, and took a pre{laration of nitre which relieved him conside-t• ably. July 8. We set out early, and soon passed a small creek on the north, which we eallell Ordway's creek, from om· sergeant of that name who had been sent on shore with the horses, and went up it. On the same side are three small islands, one of which is the Little Nodawa, and a large island called the Gt~eat Nowada extending more than five miles, and containing seven or eight thousand acres of high good land, rarely overflowed, and one of the largest islands of the Missouri. It is separated from the northern shore by a small channel of from fot·ty-five to eighty yards wide, up which we passed, and found near the western extremity of the island the mouth of the river NOtlawa. This river persues nearly a southern course, is navigable for boats to some distance, and about seventy yards wide above the mouth, though not. so wide immediately there, as the mud from the Missouri contracts its channel. At twelve and a quarter miles, we encamped on the north side, near the bead ofNodawa island, and opposite a smaller one in the middle of the river. Fiv6 of the men were this 'lay sick with violent headachs. The river continues to fall. July 9th. We passed the island opposite to which we last. night encamped, and saw near the head of it a. creek falling in from a pond on the north, to which we gave the name of Pike pond, from the numbers of that animal wbieb some of aur party saw from the shore. The wind changed at eight from N. E. to S. W. and brought rain. At six miles we passed the mouth of Monter's creek on the south, and two miles a boTe a few cabins, "here one Gf our 11arty had encamped |