The expedition leaves Fort Massac, sets up a camp about three miles down the Ohio, and Lewis is “siezed with a violent ague” similar to malaria. In Vincennes, Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison pens a letter to William Clark providing maps and introducing John Hay of Cahokia.
Leaving Fort Massac
left Massac this evening about five oclock— descended about three miles and encamped on the S. E. shore raind very hard in the eving
—Meriwether Lewis
Violent Ague
I was siezed with a violent ague which continued about four hours and as is usual was succeeded by a feever which however fortunately abated in some measure by sunrise the next morning,
—Meriwether Lewis
Governor Harrison’s Assistance
Vincennes 13th Nov. 1803
My Dear Sir [William Clark]
The map mentioned in your letter of the 5th Instant had been taken from me by Mr. Jones who claimed it as the property of Mr. Hay of Cahokia, but as it was still in the possession of Mr. Jones I have had it copied & now send it to you by the Post rider . . . .
Your offer to let me hear from you occasionally I accept with a great deal of pleasure—& I beg of you to let me Know from Cahokia whether I can do any thing for you in yr. absence.
. . . . .
William H. Harrison1
Notes
- Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 135.
