Pvt. Reubin Field returns to Fort Clatsop to report that the elk in the vicinity of Point Adams have left the area. Lewis describes the bushy-tailed woodrat, new to science. A handful of enlisted men remain ill.
The “Braro”
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Bushy-tailed Woodrat (Packrat)
Neotoma cinerea
Spencer F. Baird, Catalogue of North American Mammals, 1857, Plate IX.
Handwritten text on image: Neotoma occidentalis, Cooper.— Shoalwater Bay, W.T. 442
Bushy-tailed Woodrat
The rat in the Rocky mountain on it’s West side are like those on the upper part of the Missouri in and near those mountains and have the distinguishing trait of possessing a tail covered with hair like other parts of the body; one of those we caught at the White bear Islands in the beginning of July last and was then discribed. I have seen the nests of those in this neighbourhood but not the animal.
—Meriwether Lewis
One Elk Only
Reubin Fields returned this evening and had not killed anything. he reports that there are no Elk towards point Adams. Cllins [Collins] who had hunted up the Netul on this side returned in the evening having killed a buck Elk.
—Meriwether Lewis
Recovering Men
Willard still continues very unwell the other sick men have nearly recovered. Gutridge [Goodrich] and McNeal who have the pox are recovering fast, the former nearly well.
—Meriwether Lewis
Weather Diary
aspect of the weather at rise
Wind at aspect of the weather at 4 OC1 P.M. Wind at 4 O’Clock P.M. cloudy after rain S W rain after rain S. W. —Meriwether Lewis[2]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of ye Month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
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Notes
| ↑1 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
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| ↑2 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “Day of ye Month” column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
