Lewis: June 12, 1806
On a warm Thursday at camp on the eastern edge of a wide prairie, most hunters returned around noon empty-handed except Shields, who brought in two deer; they headed back out for the night. Whitehouse returned with his horse in the afternoon, and an Indian visitor stayed the night. Mosquitoes had grown bothersome. Lewis recalled Cutnose's promise that two young men would catch up to join him to the Missouri falls. The blooming camas across the prairie looked so blue it resembled lakes of water.
Thursday June 12th 1806. All our hunters except Gibson returned about
noon; none of them had killed anything except Sheilds who brought with him
two deer. in the evening they resumed their hunt and remained out all
night. an indian visited us this evening and spent the night at our camp.
Whitehouse returned with his horse at 1 P.M. the days are now very warm
and the Musquetoes our old companions have become very troublesome. The
Cutnose informed us on the 10th before we left him that two young men
would overtake us with a view to accompany me to the falls of the
Missouri. nothing interesting occurred in the course of this day. our camp
is agreeably situated in a point of timbered land on the eastern border of
an extensive level and beautiful) prarie which is intersected by several
small branches near the bank of one of which our camp is placed. the
quawmash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom at a short
distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this
deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.
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Thursday, June 12th, 1806. All of our hunters except Gibson returned around noon; none of them had killed anything except Sheilds (Shields), who brought back two deer. In the evening they resumed their hunt and stayed out all night. An Indian visited us this evening and spent the night at our camp. Whitehouse returned with his horse at 1 P.M. The days are now very warm, and the mosquitoes, our old companions, have become very troublesome.
The Cutnose informed us on the 10th, before we left him, that two young men would overtake us with the intention of accompanying me to the falls of the Missouri. Nothing of interest occurred in the course of this day.
Our camp is pleasantly situated on a point of timbered land on the eastern border of an extensive, level, and beautiful prairie, which is crossed by several small streams. Our camp is placed near the bank of one of them. The quamash is now in bloom, and from the color of its blossoms at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water. So complete is this deception that at first sight I could have sworn it was water.
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