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Show IU JOUitNAL OF A VOYAGI·: 17tb July, Thursday.-we crossed. the river to 1 , if ailY communications had arnved from St. earn < I d' l ... om. s, an d 1. f there was any news of other nM tan . cnc,. . f tl Ol.!ages Called at Mr. Jan1es ornson s lTilCS 0 1e •> • and was introduced to a Mr. 1Ienry (of New Jers~y), ;tbout eight and twenty yrars of age : h: spoke a ln:lc ... ·panish, and };'rcnch tolerably ~ell: he wished ~to ,~o wJth me as a vo 1u nteer . "From tlus place I wrote letter. s back to Belle l"~ontaine, \:vhilst the Indians were crossmg the river.* A man by the name of Ramsay reported to the Indians that 500 Sacs, loways, and Reynanls,. were at the mouth of Big Manitou. This gave then1 constdcra?Ic uneasiness and it took me some time to do away the tmpre.s· sion it made upon them ; for I by no 1neans believed It. \V e were about sailing when my interpreter was arrested by the shcrifi-, at the suit of Manuel de Liza, for a ~ebt between three and four hundred dollars, and was obliged to return to St. Louis. This n1ade it necessary for me to wrltc another letter to the general. W c encamped about three-fourths of a mile above the village. 1 8tb July, Friday.-Lieutenant Wilkinson and Dr. Robinson went with the Indians across the country to the village La Charette. Mr. George 1-Ienry engaged, under oath, to accompany me on my tour. Wrote to the gene· ral, and enclosed him one of I~Ienry's engagen1cnts.t After we had made our little arrangements we 1narched by land joined the boats (which had sailed early) at nvelve o'clock. Two of the men being sick I steered one boat and Mr. Henry the other by which n~eans we were enabled to keep employed our fu' ll complement of oars, although we~ ut the sick n1cn on shore. Encamped on the north side. About eleven o'clock at m. ght a tren1end o us thunder • Sec appendix. to part II. (No. 3·1 p:tgc 32. 1 S.:c :ljlpcnJix to }Mrt 11. l No. 4· J page 33· TO TilE SOl.JHCES O F TllE AL~Kt\NSA "~,Se c . II " ,) ~norm arose, and it continued to blow and rain, with thunder and lightning , until day. l)istance 1 5 miles. 1 CJth .ftt~y, Saturclay.-In cons0quence of thr rain we did not put ofr until p-t'it nine o 'clock ; 111 )' sick n1cn ma;ched. I had some reason to susp 'Cl, that one of them intended never joining us again. At dinner time the sick man of my own boat came on board ; I then went on board the ot~1cr, and we ~onrinucd to run races all day, and although thts boat had hnherto k ept behind ; yet I arrived at the encamping ground with her, n rarly half an hour before the ot.~er. '1 he c.urrcnt 1wt gcueral y so strong as below. Distance 14 m1lcs. . ~Oth July, Sunday.-Embarked about sun-rise. Wishmg to ascertain the temperature of the water, 1 disc~ vered my larg~ thermometer to be missing, which probcibly had fallen mto the river. Passed one settlernent on the north side, and, after turning the point to the south ~aw two more housrs on the south ~ide. V\T e encamped m a long reach, \\'lli ·h bore north and west. The absentees haJ not )'Ct joilled LIS. Distance 1 j nulcs. 21st July ~r01 ' I , d . . • , 'J., tuay.- t commence raunng uear day, and contmucd unt'l 4 ' I k . h . • 1 o c oc ~ m t e afternoon : the rajn \,b.als unmcnscly hc~wy, with thnnJer and Ji p·htnin rr remark-a y scv , · ~l'I · , . u b c.1 c. us ool1gcd me to lay by ; for, if w . pro-ceeded With • b · . out uats, It neccs ar•ly exposed uur bagg·arre much more tl . h o h l.ln w en at rest; for the tarp~uling could t en cover all \V ·1 J • • e set sat Clt a quarter pJst four o'clock anf< J arnveJ 'lt ti 'Jl L ("I ' 1 .' h: Vl ag\.. a · tar 'ttc a little after thn dusk ~ lll~ e~enmg, h rc w found licut nant Wilkinson and r. \.Obmson w'tl I I .1· . , 1 1 t le lluians-also, llaroney (our inter~ prcter) wah lett f l w . h . ers rom t 1c general and our tricnJs. The e,tt cr still 0 · l I cc· J . . c ntmue<. c oudy, with rain. We wcr, re- Ivc Into the hous f M Ch \:'O lllnl l . . . c o a r. . artron, and C'vcry ac. O<. atwn m hi . .cr I . , power OHere< us. J)Jsranc~ G mill). p |
