Jefferson River ascending toward divide — Joseph Whitehouse: August 1, 1805

a clear morning. we Set out as usal and proceeded on.
Some of the men killed a goose & a beaver. about 8 oClock
A. M. we took breakfast under Some handsome ceeder trees on
S. Side. Capt Lewis Serg! Gass Sharbonoe & Drewyer Set out
by land to go on up the River to make discoverys &c expecting
to find Indians &c. we proceeded on. find currents as usal
and choak cherrys along the River. the current Swift the
hills higher and more pine and ceeder timber on them. we
passed high clifts about 500 feet high in many places. consid-
erable of pine on the Sides of the hills all the hills rough and
uneven. at noon Cap! Clark killed a mountain Sheep, on the
Side of a Steep redish hills or clifts the remainder of the
flock ran up the Steep clifts. the one killed roled down
Some distance So we got it and dined eairnestly on it. it
being Cap! Clarks buthday he ordered Some flour gave out to
the party. we Saw Some timber along the Shores resembling
ceeder which Some call Juniper, which had a delightfull Shade.
I left my Tommahawk on the Small Island where we lay last
night which makes me verry Sorry that I forgot it as 1 had used
it common to Smoak in.’ proceeded on passed verry high
ragid clifts, and a bad rapid at the upper end of a Small Island
the toe rope broke of the Cap® perogue, and it was in danger
of upsetting. passed a Spring run or creek on L. Side. came
in to a valley. passed bottoms of timber and the mouth of a
1 Referring to a variety of tomahawk made with a hollow handle, which served also
as a pipe.— Ep.
large creek on S. Side, and a Spring also. we came 13% miles
and Ca[m]ped in a fine bottom covered with cotton tim-
ber and thick bushes &c. Saw a white bear. the hunters
killed 5 deer we took on board 2 Elk which Cap! Lewis had
killed and left on Shore for us. Saw Snow on the Mountains
a Short distance to the South of us.