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Show JO'CRNAL. 24 mile!~! and enc:'lmped on the Korth side in a handsome bottom. The bctt0111s here are not so large, ~n(1 hare less tirnber on them than those oc:low the Jaune. 1 h 1 I ;1f.'.mday ~~ tl·. \\-c again set out cary~ .':1c a c ear morning and wei1: on at a good rat~. 1 h1s furcnoon wA-. . pa sse.'..l some of the hin·hest bluffs I had ever seen; t> "'I . and on the top or the highest we sa\V some .~.v ountmn sheep, which the nath'es say arc cot~n1on about the Hocky mountains. Th~:e were t~e fi1·sL we hac~ seen, and we atternped to k11l some 01 them but clld not succeed. Captain Lewis, and 01:e of the ~en, travelled some distance by land and lulled a wh1te bear.The natives call them white, but they are 1nore of a brown grey They at·e lon ~e e than the common black bear, and have much larger fe et and talons. \Ve went 25 miles and encamped on the bank of a MJJ.all river, which comes in on the North side about 70 yards wide. . Tue~ t/a11 SOt h. \ Ve embark eli at sunnse ; had a, fine morning ar:d 'n:nt <,n very . well .. '\V e passe~. through a h~ndsume Country, With a nc.h s01l, and the prairies rising baautifully on both sides of the. river. \Ve went 24 miles and encamped on the North side. Captain Lewi~ killed a lar~e elk here~ JOURNAL. 13 ''HAP. YIII. 1'rednesday lst. May, 1805. 'Ve set out early in a aool morning ; and went on till 12 o'clock, when the wind rose so high, that our smflll canoes could not ~trmd the waves. \Ve made only 10 miles this day. Tlmr8day 2nd. At day bl'eak it began to snow; and the wind continued so h1rsh, we could llot proceed until the afternoon. \Vhile we lay here our hunters went out and killed some buffaloe and deer. They found some rc~l cloth at an old Indian camp, which we suppose had been offered and left as a sacrifice ; the Indians having some knoYrlcdge of a supreme being and this their 1noJe or worship. The snow <lid not fall tnore than an inch deep. At four we set out, went six miles, and encamped on the North side in a beautiful bottom. Friday 3rd. vVe proceeded on our voyage thi~ morning·, though very cold and disag reeable, and a severe frost. 'I'he snow and green grass on the prai .. ries exhibited an appearance someYvhat uncommon. The cotton wood leaYes are as )urge as dollars, notwithstanding the snow and such hard frost. \Ye passed a small riYer on the north side called the 2000 mile river. About a 1nile above we passed a brge Cr(:ek on the South side, called Porcnpine creek.\¥ e came this clay about 20 miles and encamped on the Nol'th side. Saturday 4tlz. This day was n1ore pleasa1.t: in the fo renoon we p assed a creek on the SouU1 bide, about 40 yards '' ide. The rivc'r has been ll' v l'C ~traight for two or three days than it\\ ['S b~fvrc ; the bottoms larger and 1not·e timber on t l'en'l. \Ye went ah11•.1t ei:)'!1tecn miles and encan1 p\~d ~n the North side. One of the men became sick this n1or .. uin&· and has remained so all day. |