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Show PII<E'S EXPEDITIONS. JOURNAL OP' A VOYAGE, TO THE SOURCES OF TH.E MISSISSIPPI IN THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806. SAILED from my encampment, near St. Louis, at 4 o'clock P. M. on Friday, the 9th August 1805: with one sergeant, two corporals, and seventeen privates, in a keel boat, 70 feet long, provisioned for four months: wa. ter very rapid: encamped on the east side of the river, at the head of an island. lOth A ugust; Saturday-Embarked early; brc-1k: fasted opposite to the Jnouth of the Missouri, near Wood creek. About 5 o'clock P. M. a storm came on ft~mn the westward; the boat lay too; having gone aut to march with two men behind a cluster of islands, one of my sol .. diers swam a channel, in the night, to inform me that the boat had stopt during the storm. I remained on the beach all night. Distance 28 1-2 miles. 11th A ugust ; Sunday-In the morning the boat came np and stopt opposite to the Portage De Sioux. We bcre spread o '.Jt our baggage to dry ; discharged our gun$ l\ |
