Journal entry · July 18, 1806
Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 18, 1806
John Ordway · Missouri River near present-day Cascade · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Missouri River near present-day Cascade
as usal and proceeded on down the gentle current Saw large
gangues of buffaloe out in the plains about noon Collins killed
three deer. Saw great numbers of beaver and otter &C. to-
wards evening we passed the mouth of Smiths River a short
distance below Some of the hunters went out after some gangues
of buffaloe and we Camped it being late the hunters did not kill
any this evening but Saw great numbers in the plains, the
Musquetoes and Small flyes are verry troublesome, my face and
1 “Pine Rapids” of Ordway is modern Halfbreed Rapids, a short distance
above the town of Hardy. Today’s camp was in the immediate vicinity of
that of July 16, 1805.
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1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 379
eyes are Swelled by the poison of those insects which bite verry
severe indeed.
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