Journals of the
Lewis & Clark Expedition

[Clark]

A cool morning    wind East for a Short time, which is always a Cool Wind, had a cash made for our Saddles and buried them on the Side of a Pond. [one word, illegible] 〈of the Inds.〉

finish all the Canoes late. I am verry Sick all night, Pane in Stomach & the bowels oweing to my diet

Altitude produced 45° 46' 45"—

Took time and distance of moons Western Limb and α Arquile, Star West—

Took time and Distance of Moons 〈Western〉 [ML: Western] Limb from Alberian, Star East

[Clark]

A Col Easterley wind which Spring up in the latter part of the night and Continues untill about 7 or 8 oClock A. M.    had all our Saddles Collected a whole dug and in the night buried them, also a Canister of powder and a bag of Balls at the place the Canoe which Shields made was cut from the body of the tree—    The Saddles were buried on the Side of a bend about ½ a mile below—    all the Canoes finished this evening ready to be put into the water. I am taken verry unwell with a paine in the bowels & Stomach, which is certainly the effects of my diet—which last all night—. ^[1]

The winds blow cold from a little before day untill the Suns gets to Some hight from the Mountans East as they did from the mountans at the time we lay at the falls of Missouri from the West

The river below this forks is Called Kos kos kee ^[2] it is Clear rapid with Shoals or Swift places—

The open Countrey Commences a fiew miles below This on each side of the river, on the Lard Side below the 1st Creek.    with a few trees Scattered near the river.