Lewis: July 24, 1806

Thursday July 24th 1806. At 8 A.M. the sun made it’s appearance for a few
minutes and I took it’s altitude but it shortly after clouded up again and
continued to rain the ballance of the day I was therefore unable to
complete the observations I wished to take at this place. I determined to
remain another day in the hope of it’s being fair. we have still a little
bread of cows remaining of which we made a kettle of mush which together
with a few pigeons that we were fortunate enough to kill served us with
food for this day. I sent the hunters out but they shortly returned
without having killed anything and declared that it was useless to hunt
within 6 or 8 miles of this place that there was no appearance of game
within that distance. the air has become extreemly cold which in addition
to the wind and rain renders our situation extreemly unpleasant. several
wolves visited our camp today, I fired on and wounded one of them very
badly. the small speceis of wolf barks like a dog, they frequently salute
us with this note as we pass through the plains.