At Fish Camp near present Homer, Nebraska, Sgt. Ordway’s group returns from the Omaha village empty-handed, and Clark worries about the men sent to find deserters Pvt. Reed and engagé La Liberté. The captains record celestial observations, and hunting is poor.
Return from Tonwantonga
Tallgrass Prairie
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we Set out at light, & walked along down the hills past the Graves. we Saw also a nomber of large holes in the Ground where they used to hide their peltry &C. in, when they went out hunting and when they returned they would dig it out again, I put up a paper on a pole Stuck in a round hill, as a Signal for G. Drewyer &.C—
—John Ordway
Deserters Still at Large
Our party Sent after the Deserter and to the Otteau [Otoe and Missouria] towns, have not Came up as yet
—William Clark
Poor Hunting
This day we had pleasant weather we still continued at the same place, about one o’Clock P. M. the Hunters went out but returned without any Game.—
—Joseph Whitehouse
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