Camp River Dubois, Illinois — Charles Floyd: May 15, 1804

Rainey morni[n]g fair wind the Later part of the day
Sailed som and encamped on the N. side some Land Cleared
the Soil verry Rich.
luensday may iS”^ 1804
Set out eriley this morning plesent arrived at S^ Charles
at 2 oclock P m one Gun Fired a Grait nomber of Friench
peaple Came to see the Boat &”” this place is an old French
village & Roman Catholieck Some amerrican setled in the
Countrey around.
^ He is reckoning by the New England shilling — six to a dollar. — Ed.
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a fair day but Rainey Night
we Lay at S* Charles
a Rainey day Capt Lewis Joined us
nothing worth Relating to day