Missouri River near Porcupine River — John Ordway: May 4, 1805
The snow had melted off the hills. The party delayed their start to repair the rudder of the red pirogue, which had been damaged landing the previous evening. They set off around 9 a.m. and traveled past large timbered bottoms, high smooth plains, and beautiful prairies on both sides of the river. Around 11 a.m. they passed the mouth of a creek on the south side. Buffalo and elk were sighted, and one party member killed two deer. They covered 22 miles and camped in a timbered bottom on the north side.
Snow is all melted off the hills, we delayed Some time to mend
the rudder of the red perogue which got broke landing last even-
ing, we set off about 9 oClock and proceeded on passed large
bottoms covered with timber on each Side of the River and high
Smoth plains back from the River, at 11 oC. we passed the Mouth
of a Creek [which] came in on the s. s.1 proceeded on passed
a beautiful large plains on the N. S. Saw buffaloe and Elk
passed large bottoms on S. S. and Camped on a bottom of timber
on the N. S.2 Came 22 miles one of the party killed two deer
in a fiew minutes. Came 22 miles today.
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The snow has all melted off the hills. We delayed some time to mend the rudder of the red pirogue, which got broken while landing last evening. We set off about 9 o'clock and proceeded on, passing large bottoms covered with timber on each side of the river, and high smooth plains back from the river. At 11 o'clock we passed the mouth of a creek which came in on the south side. We proceeded on, passing a beautiful large plain on the north side. We saw buffalo and elk, passed large bottoms on the south side, and camped on a timbered bottom on the north side. Came 22 miles. One of the party killed two deer in a few minutes. Came 22 miles today.
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