Journals of the
Lewis & Clark Expedition

[Clark]

rose early    Mr. McClellen [NB: an old acquaintance in the army] gave each man a Dram ^[1] and a little after Sunrise we Set out    the wind hard a head from the S E    at 8 A M we landed at the camp of the 5 hunters 〈which〉 whome we had Sent a head, they had killed nothing, the wind being too high for us to proceed in Safty through the emecity of Snags which was imediately below we concluded to lye by and Sent on the Small Canoes a Short distance to hunt and kill Some meat, we Sent out 2 men in the bottom they Soon returned with one turky and informed that the rushes was so high and thick that it was impossible to kill any deer. I felt my Self very unwell and derected a little Chocolate which Mr. McClellen gave us, prepared of which I drank about a pint and found great relief at 11 A. M. we proceeded on about 1 mile and come up with the hunters who had killed 4 deer, here we delayed untill 5 P. M when the hunters all joined us and we again proceded on down a fiew miles and encamped on the N E Side of the Missouri haveing decended 18 Miles only to day. ^[2] the day disagreeably worm.    one man George Shannon left his horn and pouch with his powder ball and knife and did not think of it untill night. I walked in the bottom in the thick rushes and the Growth of timber Common to the Illinois Such as cotton wood, Sycamore, ash ^[3] mulberry, ^[4] Elm of different Species, ^[5] walnut, hickory, horn beem, ^[6] pappaw arrow wood ^[7] willow, ^[8] prickly ash, ^[9] &c and Grape vines, ^[10] pees of 3 species ^[11] &c &c. Birds most Common the buzzard Crow the hotting owl ^[12] and hawks, &c. &c.—