Clark: April 23, 1805

23rd of April 1805 a cold morning at about 9 oClock the wind as usial rose
from the N W and continued to blow verry hard untill late in the evening I
walked on Shore after brackfast in my walk on the S side passed through
extensive bottoms of timber intersperced with glades & low open
plains, I killed 3 mule or black tail Deer, which was in tolerable order,
Saw Several others, I also killed a Buffalow Calf which was verry fine, I
Struck the river above the Perogus which had Come too in a bend to the L.
S. to Shelter from the wind which had become violently hard, I joined Capt
Lewis in the evening & after the winds falling which was late in the
evening we proceeded on & encamped on the S. S. The winds of this
Countrey which blow with Some violence almost every day, has become a
Serious obstruction in our progression onward, as we Cant move when the
wind is high without great risque, and if there was no risque the winds is
generally a head and often too violent to proceed