Lewis: June 12, 1806

Thursday June 12th 1806. All our hunters except Gibson returned about
noon; none of them had killed anything except Sheilds who brought with him
two deer. in the evening they resumed their hunt and remained out all
night. an indian visited us this evening and spent the night at our camp.
Whitehouse returned with his horse at 1 P.M. the days are now very warm
and the Musquetoes our old companions have become very troublesome. The
Cutnose informed us on the 10th before we left him that two young men
would overtake us with a view to accompany me to the falls of the
Missouri. nothing interesting occurred in the course of this day. our camp
is agreeably situated in a point of timbered land on the eastern border of
an extensive level and beautiful) prarie which is intersected by several
small branches near the bank of one of which our camp is placed. the
quawmash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom at a short
distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this
deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.