Lewis: up Marias River / Clark: down Yellowstone — John Ordway: July 23, 1806

last evening we geered up the 4 horses and Set out with 2 canoes
one large & one Small one the truck wheels which bore the large
canoe broke down often and troubled us much. Wiser cut his
leg with a knife So that he is unable to walk & [it] is a bad wound
Collins went on to willow Creek to kill Some fresh meat for us.
where he “began to scratch his head with his feet”; after vvhieh operation he
s;it down :it the foot of the tree and gave Ieeal an anxious afternoon.
1 The ferocity of the mosquitoes was almost as great as that of the grizzlies.
Lewis notes that his dog, Scannon, •even howls with the torture he experiences
from them.”
1806] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 381
with much difficulty we got the 2 canoes & considerable of bag-
gage to willow Creek about Sunset and Camped. Collins had
killed three buffaloe. Some of the other hunters killed another
fat one this evening.