Lewis/Clark descending Missouri/Yellowstone to reunion — John Ordway: August 1, 1806

on about 9 A M a Brown bear [was seen swimming the river]
and Drewyer and Cap* Lewis killed it we took it on board and
procd on Colter killed a beaver Shortly after about noon about
noon we killed a buck Elk Saved the hide and the best of the
meat, about 2 P. M. we halted at Some old Ind* lodges on S.
Side, here we delayd this afternoon3 to dry our deer Skins
Mountn Sheep Skins &.C. which were near Spoiling as the weather
has been Some time wet. about 3 P. M. a large white bear ap-
proached our Camp as Soon as he discovred us Stood up on his
hind feed and looked at us. Some of the hunters Shot him down,
for the Skin & oil. the other hunters killd four deer and a beaver
this afternoon.
1 Today’s camp w;is on the site of that of fourteen months earlier. May 29,
1805. II was al the nioulli of Arrow River, on the boundary between Chouteau
and Fergus counties.
2 Eight miles below the mouth of North Mountain (modern Rocky) Creek.
Lewis.
8 This camp was in Dawson County about fifteen miles below the mouth
of Musselshell River.
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 385