Joseph Whitehouse: August 10, 1804

the morning was clear the musquitoes was mighty trouble-
some Untill The Sun Rose to Some hight. Camp*^ On the E.
S. Roaed 24 miles.
Sateday Au^. 11.
Rain came on at the hour of 3 Oclock A. M. a heavy wind
blew after, the Crafts got under way at 6 Oclock favour? With
a South Wind, pass? a bluff whare the Black bird the late
King of the Mahars Was buried 4 years ago the Officers took
a flagg with them and Assended the hill which was 300 feet
higher than the water left the white flagg on a pole Stuck on
his Grave. Roa? 18 Miles [camped] on the E. S.