Missouri River Breaks area — John Ordway: May 16, 1805

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.