Missouri River Breaks area — John Ordway: May 16, 1805
On a pleasant morning, the party spread out their goods to dry after a previous mishap. One member wounded a large panther that had killed and was covering a deer; Captain Clark searched for the animal unsuccessfully. Ordway killed an antelope around midday, and another was caught after becoming mired in mud. Around 3 P.M. they repacked, reloaded the captains' pirogues, and set off, passing rugged broken hills, narrow bottoms, and a small willow island. By evening they had killed three buffalo, two deer, and a buffalo calf, camping in a timbered bottom on the south side.
pleasant morning, we opened the goods &.C. to get them dry
before we packed them up. one of the party wounded a large
panther he had killed a deer & was covring it up Cap* Clark
made search to find him but in vain about 12 I killed a goat or
antilope about one we packed up the goods and loaded the Cap-
tains perogues one of the party caught another goat which was
mired in the mud. about 3 P. M. oClock we Set off proceeded
on passed high rough broken hills and round knobs on each Side
of the River and narrow bottoms, passed a Small willow Island
on or near the N. Shore towards night we killed 3 buffaloe 2 Deer
and one buffaloe calf we Came [blank in Ms.] miles and Camped
on the S. Side at a bottom covered with timber & ran back like
the most of the bottoms for a long distance back.
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Pleasant morning. We opened the goods, etc., to get them dry before we packed them up. One of the party wounded a large panther; it had killed a deer and was covering it up. Capt Clark (Capt. Clark) searched to find him but in vain. About 12, I killed a goat or antelope. About one, we packed up the goods and loaded the Captains' pirogues. One of the party caught another goat which was mired in the mud.
About 3 P.M. o'clock we set off and proceeded on. We passed high, rough, broken hills and round knobs on each side of the river and narrow bottoms. We passed a small willow island on or near the north shore. Toward night we killed 3 buffalo, 2 deer, and one buffalo calf. We came [blank in Ms.] miles and camped on the south side at a bottom covered with timber, which ran back like most of the bottoms for a long distance.
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