Clark: September 15, 1806

Monday 15th of September 1806 we set out early with a Stiff Breeze a head
saw Several deer Swiming the river soon after we Set out. at 11 A.M.
passed the enterance of the Kanzas river which was very low, about a mile
below we landed and Capt Lewis and my Self assended a hill which appeared
to have a Commanding Situation for a fort, the Shore is bold and rocky
imediately at the foot of the hill, from the top of the hill you have a
perfect Command of the river, this hill fronts the Kanzas and has a view
of the Missouri a Short distance above that river. we landed one time only
to let the men geather Pappaws or the Custard apple of which this Country
abounds, and the men are very fond of. we discovered a Buck Elk on a Small
Island, and sent the 2 fields and Shannon in pursute of it they Soon Came
up with and killed the Elk, he was large and in fine order we had his
flesh Secured and divided. as the winds were unfabourable the greater part
of the day we only decended 49 Miles and encamped a Short distance Above
Hay Cabin Creek we are not tormented by the Musquetors in this lower
portion of the river, as we were above the river plat and as high up as
the Rochejhone and for a fiew miles up that river, and above its enterance
into the Missouri. we passd Some of the most Charming bottom lands to day
and the uplands by no means bad, all well timberd. the weather
disagreeably worm and if it was not for the constant winds which blow from
the S. and S E. we Should be almost Suficated Comeing out of a northern
Country open and Cool between the Latd. Of 46° and 49° North in which we
had been for nearly two years, rapidly decending into a woody Country in a
wormer Climate between the Latds. 38°& 39° North is probably the Cause
of our experiencing the heat much more Senceable than those who have
Continued within the parralel of Latitude.