and Captain Lewis had to bleed him -vvith a penlChiicj 
having no other instrument at this camp. Captain 
Clarke measured the length of this portage accu- 
rately and found it to be 18 miles. He also mea- 
sured the height of the falls, and found them in a 
distance pf 17 miles 362. feet 9 inches. The iirst 
great pitch 98 feet, the second 19 feet, the third 4f 
feet 8 inches, the fourth 26 feet ; aiKi a number 
of small pitches, amounting altogether to 362 feet 
f inches. 
Thitrsday '27th, A fine day. The men went back 
&r the remaining canoe and baggage. The sick man 
is become better. This morning some elk came- 
Cilose to camp and we killed two of them. In the 
afternoon s dreadful hail storm.. came on, which last- 
ed half an hour.^ Some of the lumps of ice that fell 
weighed 3 ounces, and measured 7 inches in circum- 
ference. The gTOund was covered w^ith them, as 
"'vhite as snov/. It kept cloudy during, the evening 
and some rain fell. At night the two hunters that 
went up the riv^er returned. They had killed while 
eut 9 elk and 3 bears, 
Friday 2Hth, A fine morning. There are but §■ 
persons now at this camp, but'all busy about the boat 
some shaving skins, some sewing them together ; and> 
Some^preparing the. wood part. 
Saturday 29th: We had a very hard gust of wind 
and rain in the morning ; but a fine forenoon after - 
it. Captain Lewis and a hunter went down the river- 
about 7 miles, to see a very lai'ge spring which rises. 
mit of s the bank of the Missouri- on the south side. 
In the afternoon' there was another heavy shower.' 
of rain, and after it a fine evenings. Captain Lewis* 
same to camp, but drenched with rain. 
Sunday 30tht A fine- morning, and heavy dew,, 
^.vhich is very rare in this country; The men with; 
the caaoe and baggage did not mturB>^ aa. we. eac?-- 
