Clark: September 9, 1806

Tuesday 9th September 1806 Set out early at 8 A. M passed the enterance of
the great river Platt which is at this time low the water nearly clear the
Current turbelant as usial; the Sand bars which Choked up the Missouri and
Confined the river to a narrow Snagey Chanel are wastd a way and nothing
remains but a fiew Small remains of the bear which is covered with drift
wood, below the R. Platt the Current of the Missouri becomes evidently
more rapid than above and the Snags much more noumerous and bad to pass
late in the evening we arived at the Bald pated prarie and encamped
imediately opposit our encampment of the 16th and 17th of July 1804.
haveing made 73 miles only to day. The river bottoms are extencive rich
and Covered with tall large timber, and the hollows of the reveins may be
Said to be covered with timber Such as Oake ash Elm and Some walnut &
hickory. our party appears extreamly anxious to get on, and every day
appears produce new anxieties in them to get to their Country and friends.
My worthy friend Cap Lewis has entirely recovered his wounds are heeled up
and he Can walk and even run nearly as well as ever he Could. the parts
are yet tender &c. &.

The Musquetors are yet troublesom, tho not So much So as they were above
the River platt. the Climate is every day preceptably wormer and air more
Sultery than I have experienced for a long time. the nights are now So
worm that I sleep Comfortable under a thin blanket, a fiew days past 2 was
not more than Sufficient