Day-by-Day

October 29, 1805

Friendly villages

Memorial Archive Originally published at lewis-clark.org. Authored by Robert Heacock (1957–2025); preserved here with permission of his family. Read the original →

Sepulcher (Memaloose) Island

The Countrey on each side begin to be thicker timbered with Pine and low white Oake; verry rockey and broken. passed three large rocks in The river the middle rock is large long and has Several Squar vaults on it. we call this rockey Island the Sepulchar—
—William Clark

High Waterfall

Saw a beautiful Spring on the Lard. Side, which run off a high clift of rocks, and fell of the clift upwards of a hundred feet perpinticular. the country Mountaineous. high clifts on the River. mostly covred with pine timber.
John Ordway

Little White Salmon River

Those people gave us, High bush cram berries, bread made of roots, and roots; we purchased three dogs for the party to eate; we Smoked with the men, all muche pleased with the violin—.
—William Clark

Weather Diary

Day of the month Wind State of the Weather
29th W. fair after rain

rained moderately all day. Saw the first large Buzzard or Voultur of the Columbia [condor].
—William Clark[1]Some abbreviations have been spelled out.

 

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