Lewis: April 8, 1806

Tuesday April 8th 1806. The wind blew so violently this morning that we
were obliged to unlode our perogues and canoes, soon after which they
filled with water. being compelled to remain during the day at our present
station we sent out some hunters in order to add something to our stock of
provision; and exposed our dryed meat to the sun and the smoke of small
fires. in the evening the hunters returned having killed a duck only; they
saw two bear and some of the blacktailed jumping or fallow deer, such as
are found about Fort Clatsop; this kind of deer are scarce in this
neighbourhood, the common longtailed fallow deer being most abundant. we
have seen the black bear only in this quarter. the wind continued without
intermission to blow violently all day. I took a walk today of three miles
down the river; in the course of which I had an opportunity to correct an
errow which I have heretofore made with rispect to the shrub I have
hithertoo called the large leafed thorn. the leaf of this thorn is small
being only abut 21/2 inches long, is petiolate, conjugate; the leafets are
petiolate accutely pointed, having their margins cut with unequal angular
insissures. the shrub which I have heretofore confounded with this grows
in similar situations, has a stem precisely like it except the thorn and
bears a large three loabed leaf. this bryer is of the class Polyandria and
order Polygynia. the flowers are single, the peduncle long and celindric.
the calix is a perianth, of one leaf, five cleft, & accutely pointed.
the perianth is proper, erect, inferior with rispect to both petals and
germen, and equal. the corolla consists of five accute pale scarlet
petals, insirted in the recepticle with a short and narrow claw. the
Corolla is smooth, moderately long, situated at the base of the germen,
permanent, and cup shaped. of the stamens the filaments are subulate,
inserted into the recepticle, unequal and bent inwards concealing the
pistillum; anther two loabed and inflected situated on the top of the
fillaments of the pistillum the germ is conical, imbricated, superior,
sessile and short. the styles are short with rispect to the stamen,
capillary smooth, obtuse, distributed over the serface of the germ and
decid-uous. no perseptable stigma.late at night the centinel
detected an old indian man in attempting to creep into camp in order to
pilfer; he allarmed the indian very much by presenting his gun at him; he
gave the fellow a few stripes with a switch and sent him off. this fellow
is one of a party of six who layed incamped a few hundred yards below us,
they departed soon after this occurrence.