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Show JJewi1 and Vlarke'3 Expedition row and steep, tlw foremost are pressed into the river fJ! the impatience of those behind. In this way we have seen ten or a dozen disappear ovet· the falls in a few minutes. They afford excellent foOfl for the wolves, bears, aml birds of prr.y; and this cit·cumstanee may account for the rcluttanee of the hears to yield their dominion over the neighbourhood. Tuesday 18. The periogue was drawn up a little IJelow our camp and secured in a thick copse of willow bushes. 'V c now began to form a cache or place of deposit and to dry om· goods and other articles which required inspection. 'rhc wagons too arc completed. Our bunters brought us ten deer, and we shot two out of a herd of bufla.loc that came to water at the sulphur spring. 'l'hcre is a species of goose~ berry growing abundantly among the rocks on the sides of the cliffs: it is now ripe, of a palo red colour, about the size of the common gooseberry, and like it is an ovate pericarp of soft pulp enveloping a number of small whitish coloured seeds, and consisting of a yellowish slimy mucilaginous substance, with a sweet taste; the surface of the berry is covt!red with a glutinous adhesive matter, and its fruit though ripe retains its withered corolla. 'l'be shrub itself seldom rises more than two feet high, is much branched, and has no thorns. 'l'he leaves resemble those of the common gooseberry cxce11t in being smaller, and the berry is supported by separate peduncles or footstalks half' an inch long. There are also immense quantities of grasshoppers of a brown colour in the t•lains, and they no doubt contribute to the lowness of the grass, which is not generally more than three inches high, though it is soft, nar1·ow-leafed and affords a fine pasture for the buffaloe. ' Vcdnesday 19. The wind blew violently to-day, as it did yesterday, and as it does frequently in this open country, where the1·e is not a tree to break or oppose its force. Some men were sent for the meat killed yesterday which fortunately had not been discovered by the wol Yes. Another party went to Medicine river in queat of elk, which we hope may be lTp the .JJiissoUJ•i. 273 induced to resot·t there, from thel'c Leing more wood in that neighbourhood than on the :i\lissouri. All the rest were occupied in packing the IJa :;~:;agc antl mcmlin; their moccas~ns, in oa·dcr to JWt'par·e for the pm·tage. 'Ve caught a number (If the white fish, hut no catfish or tl'OU(. Ou1· poor lndhm woman, who had recovered so far as to walk out, imprudently ate a quantity of the white apple, which with some dried fish occasioned a return of her fever. The meridian altitude of the sun,s lowe1•limh, as ohscrvcd with octant by hack ob~crvation, was 5S0 1 5', giving as the latitude of our <~amp, 47° 8' 59'' 5m. 'l'hut·sday 20. As we were desirous of getting meat enough to lait us during the portage, so that the mrn might not be tli~ ·erted fi'Olll their Jabou I' to look fOl' food, WC.SCllt OUt four hun( CI'S to-day: they killed eleven buffaloc. 'This was indeed an easy lauout·, for there are vast herds ('.oming constantly to the npposite bank of the river to watet·; they seem also to make much use of the miueral wahw of the sulphur sprinb, but viJether ft·om dwice, or because it is more conYenient than 1 he river, we caunot dt:termine, as they sometimes pass ncar the spring and ~o on to the river. Besides this spring, bt·ackish water o1· that of a dark colour impregnated with minm·al salts, such as we have frequetitly met on the 1\'Jis~ ouri, ma.y be found in small quantities in some of the steep ravines on the north side of the rivel' opposite to us and at lhc falls. Captain Clarke returned this evening, having examined the whole course of the river ami fixed the route most pract icable fot• the portage. '"rhe first day, 17th, he was ocrupicd in mcasut·ing the heights and distances along the banks nf the rivet·, and slept near a ravine at the foot of the er.ook~ f'(l falls, having very narrowly escaped falling into the riVer, where he would have perished inevitably, in descending the t'liffs near the grand cataract. The ue:xt. clay, 18th, he continued the same occupation, and arrived in the afternoon at the junction of l\{edicine and Missouri rivers,; up the lat- YOJ •• 1. |