The day is “dark, windy & cold,” and because the waves are too high to paddle their dugouts safely, hunters are sent out. They finally head down the Missouri late in the afternoon making only ten miles for the day. At evening camp near present Huff, North Dakota, interpreter René Jusseaume offers Clark space in his leather lodge.
A Skin Lodge of an Assiniboin Chief [Detail]
Karl Bodmer (1809–1893)
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. “Lederzelt eines Assiniboin Chefs. Tente en cuir d’un chef Assiniboin. A skin lodge of an Assiniboin chief.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 14, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c3fe-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
4 Elk and 12 Deer
the hunters which was Sent out this morning killed 4 Elk & 12 deer near the river we came too and brought in the most of the flesh
—William Clark
Delayed by Wind
at 4 P. M the wind Seased to blow with that violence which it had done all day we Set out and proceeded on down . . . . The indians appear well Satisfyed with the party and mode of proceedure. we decended only 10 miles to day
—William Clark
Jusseaume’s Leather Lodge
Jessomme [Jusseaume] the Interpreter let me have a piece of a lodge and the Squars pitched or Stretched it over Some Sticks, under this piece of leather I Slept dry, it is the only covering which I have had Suffecient to keep off the rain Since I left the Columbia.
—William Clark
Lewis Recovering
Capt. Lewis’es wounds are heeling very fast, I am much in hope of his being able to walk in 8 or 10 days—.
—William Clark
Weather Diary
State of the weather at Sun rise State of wind at Sunrise State of the weather at 4 P. M. Wind at 4 P. M. State of river thunder lightning & rain S E cloudy— S. E fall ¾ in. Comenced raining at 5 A. M and Continued with a hard wind untill [blank]
—William Clark[1]To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged.
Notes
| ↑1 | To assist the reader of this web page, the date column is omitted, some abbreviations have been spelled out, and the three river columns have been merged. |
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