JOURlSrAL. ' 103 
J^Tmday 24th. In the morning Capt; I^ewis came 
np to our camp. We found it very difficult to pro-- 
«ure stuff for the boat. The two men which Captain 
Lewis had left in the morning came to our camp in 
the afternoon, but had seen nothing of the other twa 
hunters. In the evening- there was a very heavy 
shower of rain ; at night the v./eather cleared up, and 
the men arrived with two more canoes. The two 
hunters which Capt. LeWis could not Snd, had killed 
some buffaloe below the mouth of the Medicine river, 
where one remained, and the other had gone across 
to the camp below the falls agam, but iiad found no 
elk. 
Tuesday 25ch. A cloudy morniiig. The men went- 
back for more canoe^j^ and baggage ; and one went 
down to the hunter's camp belov/ Medicine river to 
bring him up in a canoe. Another went up the river 
to look for elk. When he had gone about three miles? 
he was attacked by 3 brown bears, that were near 
devouring him; but he made his escape by running 
down a steep bank into the water. In tliis adventure 
he f(sll, injured Jiis gun, and hurt one of his hands ; 
therefore returned to camp. One of the men and 
myself went over to m island to look for stuff for 
the canoe, but could find nothing but bark, wiuch 
perhaps will answer. We killed two elk on tlie 
island. There is in the bottoms a great quantity of 
spear-mint and currant bushes. Also multitudes 
of blackbirds. The musquitoes are very trouble- 
3ome, though the snov/ is on the m.ountains so near, 
In the evening the two men came up the river with 
a quantity of good meat and 100 pounds of tallow. 
Wednesday 26lh, A fine morning. Two hunters 
went up the river, and myself and another went over 
the river to collect bark ; where a great gang o^buf- 
faloe came near us, and we killed 7 of them. In the 
evening the men returned over the plains with two 
more canoes and baggage. One man fell very skk> 
