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Show . ' Lewis (tnd Clar1,e's Expedition which he had felled, ihortening them in order to avoid tb., cracks, and supplying the deficieney by making tlu~m as wide as possible. They '!ere equally at a loss for wood of which they might make handles for their axes. the eyes of which not being r·ound they wet~e obliged to split the tim bet• in such a manner that thh·teen of the handles broke in the course of the day, though made of the best wood they could find for the p~ l'jWsc , which was the chokechm·ry. The rest of the party took the fa·ame or the boat to pie ces, deposil ed it in a cache ot· hole, with a dr·aught of the countr·y from fort 1\'Iandan to this place, and also some other papers and small al'ticlrs of less importance. A fter this we amused out•selves with fishing. and although we had thought on our arrival that there were none in this part of the r·iver, we caught some of a species of white chub below the falls, but few in number, and small in size. Serjeant Ordway with four canoes and eight mrn had set sail in the morning, with pal't of the baggage to the place where captain Clarke had fixed his camp, but the wind was so high that he only reached within three miles of that place, and encamped for the night. Thursday, Ju)y 11. In the morning one of the canoes joined captain Clarke: the other three having on board more valuable articles, which wouJd have been injured by the water, went on more cautiously, and did not reach the camp till the evening. Captain Clarke then had the canoes unloaded and sent back, but the high wind prevented their floating down nearer than about eight miles above us. His party were busily engaged with the canoes, and their hunters supplied them with three fat deer and a buffaloc, in addition to two deer and an antelope killed yesterday. 'l'he few men who were with captain Lewis were occupied in hunting, but with not much success, having killed only one butfa.Joe. They heard about sunset two discharges of the tremendous mountain artillery: they also saw several very large gra.1 easles, m.uch lar;er than those of the Unitel Up the .iUissouri. !t97 States, ami most probably a distinet species, though the bald eagle of this countl'y is not quite so la1·ge as that of the United Slates. '"fhe men havt.• been much afHicted with painful whit.lows, and one of them dL~abl~d f1·om 'vorking by this complaint in his l1and. l?1·iday, 1.2. In consequence of tbe wind the canoes did not reach the lower camp till )ate in the afternoon, before which time captain Lewis sent all the men he could spare up the river to assist in building the boats, and the day was too fa1• advanced to reload and SE"nd them up befor·e nol'ning. The musquitoes are yerJ ta·oublesome, and they have a eomrmnion not. less so, a la.a·ge bla<~k gnat which does not sti11g, but attacks the eyes in ~ wat~ms. The party \\ith captain Clarke are employed on the C'anoes; in the (~o urse of the work serjeant P r·yot• dislocated h is shoulder ycstet·day, but it was replaced immediately, and though paiuful does not threaten much inj u•'Y· The huntct·s bt·ought in three deer and two otter. 'rhis last animal has been numerous since the waterhas become sufficientiJ cleat.. for them to take fish. 'l'lle bluc-crestctl fishe t"", o1· as it is sometimes called, the king .. fi shel', is an inhabit~ nt or tltiti paa·t of tlae river; it is a bird rare on the ~lissouri; .indeed we had not seen more than three o1· four of them ft•om its cntt·ance to Mat·ia's river, and even those did not seem to J'csidc on the Missouri but on some of the clear 't> streams which empty into it, as they were seen near the mouths of those streams. Sa.turtlay 13. 'rhe morning being fair and calm captajn Lewis had all the remaining baggage embarked on board the six canoes, which sailed with two men in each for the upper camp. 'l'hen with a sick man and the Indian woman, he left the encampment, and crossing over the rher went on by land to join captain Clarke. From the head of the White .. t.ear islands he proceeded in a southwest direction, at the distance of three miles, till he strucJ<. the Missouri, which he then followed ti II he r eached the place where a!l the party were occupied in boa t-building. On his way he passed ave- YOL. I. Q. () • |