Yesterday, the pirogue manned by the French engagés waited for lost hunter Joseph Whitehouse. He eventually arrives and the boat and crew join the main group late at night. In the morning, Clark records the incident, and the entire contingent travels fourteen miles camping near present-day Chamois, Missouri. Lewis collects a specimen of River-bank grape, Vitis riparia.
River-bank Grape
Vitis riparia
Photo by US Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service.
Lost Hunter
Set out at 7 oClock after a heavy rain, rained all last night, a little after Dark last night Several guns were herd below, I expect the French men fireing for Whitehous [Whitehouse] who was lost in the woods.
—William Clark
Trees, Grapes, and Rushes
Here the soil is good, with cotton wood, sycamore, oak, hickory, and white walnut; with some grape vines, and an abundance of rushes.
—Patrick Gass
Lost Specimen No. 9
No. 9. Was taken on the 30th of May 1804 below the mouth of the Osage river; it rises from 18 Inches to 2 feet in hight; is a beautifull green plant found most generally on the sides of rich hills in the forrest it’s radix is fiberous—
—Meriwether Lewis
This lost specimen, received by John Vaughn in 1805 (see The Donation Book), remains unidentified.[1]Gary E. Moulton, ed. Journals, “Fort Mandan Miscellany”, vol 3:453, 467.
Weather Diary
Mulburies begin to ripen, very abundant in the bottom
—Meriwether Lewis
Notes
| ↑1 | Gary E. Moulton, ed. Journals, “Fort Mandan Miscellany”, vol 3:453, 467. |
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