JOURNAL. 
wet disagreeable morning, and in a slaort time 
saw a large brown or grizly bear swimming in the 
river, which we killed, and took on board ; passed 
the mouth of Muscle shoal river ; and at noon halted 
to dine at some old Indian lodges. Captain Lewis 
being afraid, from the dampness of the weather, that 
the skins he had procured of these big-horned ani- 
mals would spoil, thought it adviseable to stay here 
this afternoon and dry them by a fire in these old 
lodges : and some of the men went out to hunt. A* 
bout an hour after we landed here, a large bear came 
so close to our camp, that one of the men shot and 
killed it from our fire. In the evening our hunters 
came in and had killed several deer. The afternoon 
was cloudy with some rain ; and having made a ftre 
and put the skins to dry with two men to attend 
them, made our arrangements for the night. 
Satui^day 2nd. This was a fine clear morning, and 
Captain Lewis thought it best to stay here to day also 
and dry all our baggage, as it was become damp and 
wet. Two hunters were sent on in a canoe to hunt ; 
and in the course of the day we got every thing dry 
and ready to set out the next morning. 
Sunday Srd, We had a fine morning, and at 6' 
o^clock got vmder way and proceeded on. Having 
gone ten miles we came up with the hunters wh© 
had killed twenty four deer. We went on very rapid- 
ly and saw great gangs of elk feeding on the shores, 
but few buffaloe. At sunset we encamped having 
gone 73 miles. 
Monday ^th. This was another pleasant day a^d we 
proceeded on early. One of the small canoes with 
two hunters did not come up last night. We left 
;gii1other small canoe with some hunters behind and 
proceeded on. We went very ra|."udiy, and in out' 
way killed a buffaloe, an elk and some deer. At five 
o'clock we passed the mouth of Milk river, which 
was very high and the current strong. Having pro^ 
ceeded 8.8 miles \yc encamped fer the night. 
