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Show PJI<E'S EXPEDITIONS9 . .. . , . JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE, TO THE SOURCES OF TH~ MISSI SSIPPI IN THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806, SAILED fron1 my encamp1nent, ncar St. Louis, at 4 o'clock P. M. on Friday, the 9th .A.ugust l805 : with one sergeant, two corporals, and seventeen pri vatcs, in 'l keel boat, 70 feet long, provisioned for four months: water very rapid : encamped on the cast side of the river, at the head of an island. lOth A ugust; Saturday-Embarked early ; break. fasted opposite to the mouth of the Missouri, ncar W ooq creek. About 5 o'clock P. M. a storm came on frorq the westward ; the boat lay too ; having gone out to m~rcq with two men behind a cluster of islands, one of my sol .. diers swam a channel, in the night, to inform n}e that the boat had stopt during the storm. 1 remained on the bead) all night. Distance 28 1-2 miles, Iltb August; Sunday-In the morning the boat came up and stopt opposite to the Portage J)c Siou. . We. here spread out our baggage to dry; discharged our gun~ A |