Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact — John Ordway: August 16, 1805

the Thurmometer Stood at 47° the water so cold that we delayed
until after we took breakfast. One hunter out this morning. 2
hunters Stayed out last night, we proceeded on as usal. passed
a handsom Spring run on L. Side Some timber on it. we find
the current Swift [and] the river Shallow we are oblidged to hall
the large canoes the most of the time. Cap1 Clark our Intrepter
& wife walked on Shore and found a great quantity of Servis
berrys the largest & best I ever saw. they gethered a pale full
&. C. Gave them out to the party at noon where we halted to
dine at a grove of cotton trees on L. Side. Saw a nomber of bald
& grey Eagles &. C. our hunter who went out this morning killed
a verry large buck, the bottoms on the River narrow we name
this place Servis berry valley, the 2 hunters who Stayed out
last night joined us here and informed us that the River forks again
only about 6 miles by land from this & that each fork was Shallow.
2 hunters sent on to the forks to hunt we proceeded on passed
up Sholes & rapids towards evening we passed up a verry bad
rockey rapid which was difficult to pass over, we were oblidged
to waid and hale the canoes over the large rocks &. C. we passed
a fine Spring on S. Side and a run on L. Side2 high clifts of rocks
& hills on each Side found pleanty of currents on the banks.
1 Seven miles by land. The camp was at the mouth of a small run, three
miles above Grasshopper Creek. Coues gives its name as Gallagher’s Creek.
2 Now called Clark Caflon Creek. The springs mentioned by Ordway are
shown on some modern maps.
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the water not So Swift above the bad rapid, we Came [blank in
Ms.] miles1 and Camped on a narrow bottom on L. Side no
timber, we gethered small willow Sticks only to boil our vension.
the beaver verry pleanty &. C.