Clark: July 21, 1805

July 21st Sunday 1805 a fine morning our feet So brused and Cut that I
deturmined to delay for the Canoes, & if possible kill Some meat by
the time they arrived, all the Creeks which fall into the Missouri on the
Std. Side Since entering the Mountains have extencive Valies of open
Plain. the river bottoms Contain nothing larger than a Srub untill above
the last Creek the Creeks & runs have timber on them generally, the
hills or mountains are in Some places thickly covered with pine &
Cedar &c. &c. I proceeded on about 3 miles this morning finding no
fresh Indian Sign returned down the river four miles and Camped, turned
out to hunt for Some meat, which if we are Suckessfull will be a
Seasonable Supply for the partey assending. emence quantities of Sarvice
buries, yellow, red, Purple & black Currents ripe and Superior to any
I ever tasted particularly the yellow & purple kind. Choke Cheries are
Plenty; Some Goose buriesThe wild rose Continue the Willow more
abundant no Cotton wood of the Common kind Small birds are plenty, Some
Deer, Elk, Goats, and Ibex; no buffalow in the Mountains.

Those mountains are high and a great perportion of them rocky Vallies
fertile I observe on the highest pinicals of Some of the mountains to the
West Snow lying in Spots Some Still further North are covered with Snow
and cant be Seen from this point The Winds in those mountains are not
Settled generally with the river, to day the wind blow hard from the West
at the Camp. The Missouri Continus its width the Current Strong and
Crouded with little Islands and Cose graveley bars; but little fine Sand
the Chanel generally a Corse gravel or Soft mud. Musquetors & Knats
verry troublesom. I killed a Buck, and J. Fields killed a Buck and Doe
this evening. Cought a young Curlough.