Journal entry · September 5, 1803
Meriwether Lewis: September 5, 1803
Meriwether Lewis
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): 6 mi above Steubenville, OH
September 5th
Again foggy, loaded both my canoes and waited till the fogg disappeared set out at 8 OCl. had some difficulty in passing several riffles today but surmounted it without having recorse to horses or oxen—rained at six this evening and continued with some intervals through the night to rain pretty heard; took up at the head of Brown’s Island; it grew very dark and my canoes which had on board the most valuable part of my stores had not come up, ordered the trumpet to be Sound[ed] and they answered.—they came up in a few minutes after; the stores in the canoes being well secured with oil cloth I concluded to let them remain on board and directed that the water which they maid should be bailed out of them occasionally through the night, which was done—they still leaked considerably notwithstanding the repairs which I had made on them; we came 16 miles this day.
Source: Lewis’s 1803 journal, printed in Quaife, The Journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Sergeant John Ordway (Wisconsin Historical Society, 1916), p. 36. Public domain.
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The NPS atlas for this night
6 mi above Steubenville, OH
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
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- Historic Fort Steuben (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 3.2 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
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