Missouri River near Big Bend — Joseph Whitehouse: September 19, 1804

we Set off eairly. a clear day. we passed handsom large
bottoms on Each Side covered with timber j? Fields killed
a black tailed Deer & hung it up on the bank of the river.
Cap! Clark & 2 men went out to hunt on N.S. at noon we
Saw Some buffaloe Swimming the river. we Stoped and
Killed 2 of them. proceeded on. Cap! Lewis and Drewyer
went to hunt on an Island opposit to this Isl‘ comes in
River called the Souix pass over of the three Rivers. at the
upper end of the Same Is? comes in a creek called Elm Creek
up the bluffs ab! 2 miles comes in another Creek called wash
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creek. Cap! Lewis and Drewyer Came to the Boat again.
about 2 miles we pass? another creek called night Creek, at
which place we Camped on the South Side. Here Drewyer
came to us had killed 2 deer of the black tal kind.