Missouri River near Boonville area — John Ordway: June 22, 1804

of rain & high wind from N.E. Thunder and lightning &.C.
the day fair proceeded on 2 miles one of the men killed a
goose, we passed a handsome prarie on the South Side & a Creek
called little fire Creek.5 Passed a Creek on the N. Side called
1 Tabo Creek on the M. R. C. map; variously spelled on other modern maps.
It joins the Missouri near Berlin, Lafayette County.
2 The “bear,” or “bier” was a covering used like its modern exemplar, the
mosquito bar, as a protection against mosquitoes. Later we find Lewis using
the term to designate the cord net which Sacajawea used as a cradle for her
infant. Thwaites, II, 197.
3 Identified by Coues as modern Crooked Creek, in Ray County. Biddle
consolidated the journal entries for June 19 and June 20 into one, and in the
process made the mistake of having the party pass Tyger Creek on June 19,
before reaching Tabo Creek.
4 This name proved to be a puzzler for the journalists of the expedition.
Floyd gives it as Deu bau; Gass gives Du Beau or Du Bois; Clark wrote Eue-
bert, which Biddle rendered Eau Beau or Clearwater. For a discussion of the
significance of the name and the curious transformations it has undergone see
Coues, I, 29.
6 Probably modern Fire Prairie Creek, which joins the Missouri near the
Jackson-Lafayette county boundary.
88 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [June 23
Big fire Creek1 where our hunters waiting for us. we Camped
opos. on South Side
23d June Saturday Some wind this morning from the N.W. we
set out at 7 O.C. the wind Raised. Cap* Clark went out hunt-
ing by 11 O.C. we were obledged to Camp it being too windy for
to see the Sand bars &.C. The Hunters killed 2 Deer & got them to
camp they went out again. Cap* Clark Remained on Shore all
day & all Night, we lay Camped on the upper point of an Island,
our arms Inspected &. C. we lay all night on this Island. Jurked
our meat &.C.