Calumet Bluff, meeting with Yankton Sioux — Joseph Whitehouse: September 1, 1804
A heavy windstorm with rain struck the previous night, lasting about two hours. The party set out early under cloudy skies, with three men sent hunting; they killed three elk. Around 8 a.m. they halted on the south side at the site of an ancient half-moon-shaped fortification, partly washed into the river, which Captain Clark measured. Strong north winds forced them to lay to at a high prairie, where they found plums and grapes in abundance.
a hard Storm of wind and rain last night which lasted about
2 hours, cloudy this morning we Set off eairly three men
out hunting. the hunters killed three Elk. we halted at 8
1 The entry for Sept. x is in handwriting No. 2. — Ep.
LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNALS _[Sept. 3
oC on the S. S. where their was an ancient fortification in the
form of a half moon it appeared that one Side had washed in
to the river. Cap! Clark took the dimentions of it. the wind
high from the North So that we were obledged to lay too at a
high prarie where we found plumbs & Grapes a pleanty.
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A hard storm of wind and rain last night which lasted about 2 hours. Cloudy this morning. We set off early, with three men out hunting. The hunters killed three elk. We halted at 8 o'clock on the south side, where there was an ancient fortification in the form of a half moon. It appeared that one side had washed into the river. Capt Clark (Capt. Clark) took the dimensions of it. The wind was high from the north, so that we were obliged to lay to at a high prairie, where we found plums and grapes aplenty.
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