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Show -50 JOURNAL. turned wountlecl and very mnch alaJ·merl; nnct orde 1·~ ed us to our at·ms, supposin~ he ht~cl bl'<..:Jl shnt at by Jndimc;. IL1\·ing- pt'~pcued fot· hn .11 t 1ck, w~ .1( out with three.! men to l't!Connoitre 8'1d c,·,,t .ine tl1e bushes, wllich are Yery thick at this pl.1ce, ancl c·n:ld ~ e no Indi.tns; but after some time n1tt '·' ith t:1e man who went out with Captain Le\~ is, and found on inquiry th<~t he had ~hot him by accicl..;nt throug·i1 the hips, ancl without knowing- it pursued the gnme.Ilaving made this discovc1T Wt! l't:turned to the peri~ oug-e; examined and dt·esst!d Captain Lewi<.>\ wou:1d; «mel fou!'lcl t:~e ball, which had lod~ed in his oY<.:i'alls. The canoes having cmne down, we p1·orcedc-d on, nfter dres~ing two elk that had bet.n killed at this place, and passed an encampment which Captain Clarke had left in the morning. 'Ve found a note here informing-us, that the Indians had stolen all the horses which he had sent with a serjeant and party, from Yellow Stone rivet-, and that the set'jeant with the party came down in skin canoes ~nd met him at this phtce. 'V c then proceeded on some distnnce and encdmptcl. Tz:.C6'day 12th. The morning was pleasant ancl we p;oceeded on: Captain Lewis is in good spirits ; but Ju: wound stdf and sore. IIaving g·one about nine nnle~ we met with two men on the rive1· trapping and l~m1~wg. .Captain Lewis gave them some ammunitwn, and d1rections with respect to the l'i rer above. They informed us that Captain Clarke cmd party had passed 1 hem yesterday at noon. \Ve proceeded o·1 unci at 10 o'clock overtook Captain Clarke and his pa-l'ty, all in good health. The two men with the small Cc.lnoe. who had been some time absent, cam~ do\1\'n and joiued ut the place where we met with the two stranget~s :. and now, (thanks to Gocl) \re arc all togetl.'ci· ag·a1n ~n good health, except Captain Lewis, ,.tncJ lits wound Is not clange1 ous. After the Corps were seperated among the moun· JOUH.NAL. tains, as before mentioned, Captain CI.trke's pnrty proceeded on to the Canoe deposit, near the head of tbc main branch of the l'vlissouri (c ~lled J cfferson's river) and having descer;ded with the r:.moe~ to the n1outh of the branch, w h1ch they called (,aJJatm, CapClarke \\ ith ten men left those, who wc1·e to take down tile canoes to the falls; travelled three days up Gallatin's river toward~ the south, wheu they crossed a ridge and cam~ upon t~1e waters of the Jaun~ or Yellow-stone river. Ha\'lng gone about 100 miles down thi:, river by land they made two canoes, and C..tptain Clarke baring sent off a scrge,mt and three men with the horse~ to the l\tland~m villag-e~, went down himself with six other men Qy water. On the second tlay after the sergeant and his party had started for the !\1andan villages, the Indians stole the wbole of the horses, and tl1e pat·ty were obliged to desc~nd th_e river in skin canoes. Capt~1in Chnkt:'s p.1rty 111 the1r rout had found game plenty of diflerent kinds; buffuloe, elk, deer, beaver, ottet' and some othet· ammals. 1'hey also foullcl the Yellow-Stone river n pltns.tnt and nJrig·able stream, with a rich soil 01long it ; but timber sca,·ce. 'Ve here took the n1en on board, and ]eft the buffaloc canoes. At night ..., e encamped on a sai~d beach, as the muskctoe~ are not so bad there as m the \'roods. JVcclnesday I .'3th. After a stormy n~g-ht of wind ~ncl r .. 1in we set out cat·Jy in a fine mornmg-; about nme o'clock passed the Little l\lissoul'i and went on Y~ry well during· the whole of the day. _In the evenmg those in s01ne of the small canoes, which V•ere ahead, saw Indians, who Dul l:>ef(>re they could spe<~k to tbem. At nig-ht we encamped opposit7 an old wintering Yiilage of the Grussn.:ntres, wh1ch had been deserted some time ag-o. Thursday 14 th . The morning of this clay w~s pleasant, a ad we embark eel early. In n ~hort ume we |