Lewis/Clark descending Missouri/Yellowstone to reunion — John Ordway: August 8, 1806

procd on verry well untill 10 A. M. then not overtaking Cap*
Clark & party Cap* Lewis concluded to halt and dry our baggage
dress Some Skins as the party is nearly naked and repair the
canoes. So we Camped5 at a bottom on N. Side drew out the
1 Modern Red Water Creek, in Dawson County.
2 Ten miles below the camp of May 1. 1805. Lewis.
3 Clark had reached Hie mouth of the Yellowstone August .”>. and encamped
with the intention of awaiting the arrival of Lewis. The ferocity of the mos-
quitoes was such, however, that (he camp became uninhabitable, and so was
abandoned the following daj .
4 The camp was “in the next bottom above our encampment of the ‘J.’ir’1
and 24th Of April 1805.” Lewis.
5 About eight miles by water and three by land, according to Lewis, above
1806] SERGEANT ORD WAY’S JOURNAL 387
white perogue after unloading and my canoe as they leaked the
musquetoes troublesome at this Camp. Drewyer killed two deer.