Meriwether Lewis: November 21, 1803

21st Nov. 22nd 1803. Set out at ½ past 6 A. M. the current very rapid and difficult. the iner part of every bend of this river where it makes any considerable turn is always filled with Island[s] of different shapes and sizes. one of my men went on shore and killed one of them [heath hens], of which we made soome soup for my friend Capt Clark who has been much indisposed since the 16th inst. arrived oposite three new habitations of some Americans who had settled under the Spanish government, this settlement is on a bottom called Tywappety.

Source: Lewis’s 1803 journal, printed in Quaife, The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway (Wisconsin Historical Society, 1916). Public domain.