Clark: September 5, 1806

Friday 5th September 1806 The Musquetors being So excessively tormenting
that the party was all on board and we Set out at day light and proceeded
on very well. here the river is bordered on both sides with timber &c
becoms much narrower more Crooked and the Current more rapid and Crouded
with Snags or Sawyers than it is above, and continus So all day. We did
not meet with McClellen as we expected at the Creek. the report of the
guns which was heard must have been the Mahars who most probably have just
arrived at their village from hunting the buffalow. this is a Season they
usialy return to their village to Secure their Crops of Corn Beens punkins
&c &c. proceeded on very well passd. the blue Stone bluff at 3 P.
M here the river leaves the high lands and meanders through a low rich
bottom. Encamped on the S W Side on a Sand bar at a cut off a little below
our Encampment of the 9th of August 1804. haveing made 73 Miles to day-
Capt. Lewis still in a Convelesent State. We Saw no game on the Shores to
day worth killig only Such as pelicans Geese ducks, Eagles and Hawks &c.-