Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 17, 1806

breakfast and proceeded on Collins and Colter skinned the 2
Mountn Sheep Saved the Skin and bones for our officers to take to
the States, the wind rose So high that Some of the canoes were
near being filled, about noon we arived at the head of the pine
Islands & rapids & halted at the creek above as the wind [was] too
high to pass these rapids with Safety. Cruzatte killed 2 big horn
animels and Colter killed a deer, towards evening the wind
abated a little So we passed down the rapids with Safety, at the
foot of the rockey mountains large gangs of the Ibex or big horn
anam Seen along the edges of sd Mountn8 Camped about 6 miles
below sd rapids1 at a bottom in groves of cotten timber.