Camp Fortunate / Shoshone contact — Joseph Whitehouse: August 16, 1805

a clear but verry cold morning. the Thurmometer Stood
at 47. the water So cold that we delayed untill after break-
fast. _one hunter out on a head. we proceeded on as usal
the current Swift passed a handsom Spring run on L. Side
on which is a fiew cotton trees. Cap! Clark our Intrepter &
wife walked on Shore and found a great nomber of fine berrys
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which is called Servis berrys our Int wife gethered a pale full
& gave them to the party at noon where we halted at a grove
of cotton trees on L. S._ our hunter who went out this morn-
ing killed a verry large buck. two of our hunters Stayed out
last night, and have not returned yet. we name this place Ser-
vis valley, from the abundance of these berrys along under the
hills &c. the 2 hunters joined us here & Informed us that the
River forks in about 5 miles a Strait course by land & they
think we can go no further than the forks with the crafts. 2
hunters Sent on to the forks to kill meat. we proceeded on
over verry Shallow & Swift water passed up a verry bad rockey
rapid where we had to waid up to our middle & hale the canoes
over the rapids. Saw Several fine Springs & a run above the
bad rapid passed high clifts of rocks and high hills on each
Side. found pleanty of currents the water not So bad above
the rapid. Came [blank space in MS.] miles this day and
Camped on a narrow bottom on L. Side. No timber we
could Scarsely find any but Small willow to boil our venison.
CuHuarpter KUT
CROSSING THE GREAT DIVIDE, AND SEARCHING
FOR NAVIGABLE WATERS
August 17-26, 1805