Clark: August 1, 1804

August the 1st 1804 a fair morning, Sent out two men after the horses
& one back to examine if the Indians have been there, ____ Beever
Cought last night, the air is Cool and pleasing

Prepared the Pipe of Peace verry flashey. wind rose at 10 oClock and
blowed from the W. S. W. very pleasent all day Several men geathering
grapes &c. two men after the horses which Strayed the night before
last. those Praries produce the Blue Current Common in the U. S. the Goose
Berry Common in the U. S, two Kind of Honeysuckle, the Bush which I have
Seen in Kentucky, with a paile Pink flower, also one which grow in
Clusters about 4 or 5 feet high bearing a Short flour in clusters of the
like Colour. the leaves Single. 3 Deer & an Elk Killed to day. This
being my birth day I order’d a Saddle of fat Vennison, an Elk fleece &
a Bevertail to be cooked and a Desert of Cheries, Plumbs, Raspberries
Currents and grapes of a Supr. quallity. The Indians not yet arrived. a
Cool fine eveninge Musquetors verry troublesom, the Praries Contain
Cheres, Apple, Grapes, Currents, Rasp burry, Gooseberris Hastlenuts and a
great Variety of Plants & flours not Common to the U S. What a field
for a Botents and a natirless

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August the 1st 1804 a fair morning Despatched two men after the horses
lost yesterday, one man back to the place from which the messinger was
Sent for the Ottoes to See if any Indians was or had been there Since our
deptr. he return’d and informed that no person had been there Sence we
left it. The Prarie which is Situated below our Camp is above the high
water leavel and rich Covered with Grass from 5 to 8 feet high
intersperced with Copse of Hazel, Plumbs, Currents (like those of the
U.S.) Rasberries & Grapes of Dift. Kinds. also produceing a Variety of
Plants and flowers not Common in the United States, two Kind of honey
Suckle one which grows to a kind of a Srub. Common about Harrods burgh in
Kentucky the other are not So large or tall and bears a flower in Clusters
Short and of a light Pink Colour, the leaves differ from any of the othe
Kind in as much as the Lieves are Distinkd & does not Surround the
Stalk as all the other Kind does one Elk and three Deer Killed to day also
two Beever Cought

The wind rose at 10 oClock from the W. S. W. and blew a Steedy and
agreeable Breeze all Day.

The Musqutors verry troublesom this evening in the bottoms.

Took equal altitudes to day and the azmuth with the Commencement of the
A.M.