Clark: September 16, 1804

September 16th Sunday, we proceeded on 11/4 Miles and Camped on the L.
Side in a butifull Plain Surounded with timber in which we Saw Severall
Der, we delayed here for the purpose of Drying the articles which were wet
& the cloathes to Load the Perogue which we had intended to send back,
finding the water too Shoal Deturmind to take on the Perogue also to make
Some observations for Longitude &c. the two men G. & R. F. joined
us and informed “that the river as far as they were up had much the
Appearance of the river about the mouth, but little timber and that
chiefly elm”, the up land between this river & the White river is
fine, Great numbers of Goat, Deer of three kinds, Buffalow, & wolves,
& Barking Squrels, The fallow Deer, Cloudy, all day Cleaning out the
boat examining & Drying the goods, & loading the Perogue, I killed
2 Deer Capt Lewis one & a Buffalow, one Buffalow & five other Deer
Killed. I observed Pine Burs & Burch Sticks in the Drift wood up white
river which Coms in on the L. S. imedeately in the point is a butifull
Situation for a town 3 Gentle rises, & more timber about the mouth of
this river than usial

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16th of September Sunday 1804 We Set out verry early & proceed’d on
11/4 miles between Sand bars and Came too on the L. S. (1)deturmined
to dry our wet thig and liten the boat which we found could not proceed
with the present load for this purpose we Concluded to detain the Perogue
we had intended to Send back & load her out of the boat & detain
the Soldiers untill Spring & Send them from our winter quarters. We
put out those articles which was wet, Clean’d the boat & perogus,
examined all the Locker Bails &. &c. &.

This Camp is Situated in a butifull Plain Serounded with Timber to the
extent of 3/4 of a mile in which there is great quantities of fine Plumbs
The two men detachd up the White river joined us here & informed that
the river as far as they were up had much the appearance of the Missourie
Som Islands & Sands little Timber Elm, (much Signs of Beaver, Great
many buffalow) & Continud its width, they Saw & well as my Self
Pine burs & Sticks of Birch in the Drift wood up this river, They Saw
also Number of Goats Such as I Killed, also wolves near the Buffalow
falling Deer, & the Barking Squrels Villages Capt. Lewis went to hunt
& See the Countrey near the Kamp he killed a Buffalow & a Deer

Cloudy all day I partly load the empty Perogue out of the Boat. I killed 2
Deer & the party 4 Deer & a Buffalow the we kill for the Skins to
Cover the Perogus, the meet too pore to eat. Capt Lewis went on an Island
above our Camp, this Island is abt. one mile long, with a Great purpotion
ceder timber near the middle of it

I gave out a flannel Shirt to each man, & powder to those who had
expended thers