Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact — Joseph Whitehouse: August 13, 1805

cloudy. we Set out as usal & proceeded on. Several
hunters out a hunting. passed a handsom Spring run on the
L. Side. the hills make a little nearer the River. the valley
not So wide & a little higher dry and Smoth. Sun flowers &
grass Some places high & other places Short. Some pine
timber back on the high hills. we halted & took breakfast
near a high clift of rocks on L. Side above which the hills
make near the River. proceeded on. the current rapid the
plain continues on L, Side and hills on S. Side. Some Scatter-
ing cotton trees along the River. we have caught a nomber
of Trout in this Stream. in the afternoon we passed fine
Springs & clifts of rocks on S. Side. the current not So rapid
in the afternoon Saw a nomber of large otter along the River.
Saw bald eagels ducks &c. took on board a Deer which the
hunters killed. Came 15 miles this day and Camped on the
Smooth prarie on L.S. Cap! Clark Shot a duck. consider-
able of flax in these praries. Some of the men Save Some of
the Seed. 2 hunters did not join us this evening.