JOURNAL, 
•37 
Tiad gone out on the 26th of last month to hunt the 
holies, and supposing we had got a distance ahead) 
proceeded i>p the river several &ays journeyv before 
he discovered his trrow Captain Lewis and Captain 
Clarke with some of the men went to view a round 
knob of a hill in a prairie, and on their return killed 
a prairie dog, in size about that of the smallest spe- 
cies of domestic dogs. 
Having understood that the village of those small 
dogs was at a short distance from our camp, Captain 
Lewis and Captain Clarke with all tiie party, except 
the guard, went to it ; and took with them all the 
kettles and other vessels for holding water ; in order 
tp drive the animals out of their holes by pouring in 
water ; but though they w^orked at the business till 
night they only caught one of them. 
t^ttirdaij^th. We proceeded early on our voyage, 
and had a clear day and fidr wind from the S. E. 
Passed the bed of a creek Without ^'ater. At 9 I 
went out with oi^e of our men, who had killed a buffa- 
loe and left '.his hat to keep off the vermin and beasts 
of prey ; but when we came to the place, we found 
the wolves had devoured the carcase and carried off 
the hat. Here we found a white wolf dead, supposed 
to have been killed in a contest for the buffaloe. We 
passed high bluffs on the south side and burnt prairie 
on the north. We encamped on an island covered 
w^ith timber ; and having alnumber of buffaloe on it. 
Captain Lewis who had been out with some of tli.e 
men hunting informed \is he had passed a trading 
hou^e, huilt in 1796. This day we killed two buffa- 
loe, a large and a stnall elk, a deer and two beaver. 
Sunday 9r/i, We set out early, and passed two 
small creeks on the north side, high bluffs on t& 
south, and at 1 o'clock landed for dinner at a small 
creek on the south side. One of our hunters brought 
in a deer and two fawns. This day we saw several 
^-angs or herds, of buffaloe on the sides of the hills ? 
