Clark: September 13, 1806

Saturday 13th September 1806 rose early Mr. McClellen gave each man a Dram
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 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. 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
mulberry, Elm of different Species, walnut, hickory, horn beem, pappaw
arrow wood willow, prickly ash, &c and Grape vines, pees of 3 species
&c &c. Birds most Common the buzzard Crow the hooting owl and
hawks, &c. &c.-