Spirit Mound, South Dakota — Patrick Gass: August 25, 1804
The party noted that very large catfish, sometimes weighing up to three hundred pounds together, were being caught in the Missouri River with hook and line. Captains Lewis and Clark left to investigate a hill on the north side of the river that local natives refused to approach, claiming a small, fearsome people lived there. When the captains had not returned by 11 o'clock, the group set sail with a gentle southeast breeze, passed black bluffs on the south side, and camped nine miles on. Two hunters returned having killed a large elk. The captains did not return that evening.
catfish, that would together weigh three hundred pounds.
The large catfish are caught in the Missouri with hook and
line. Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke went to see a hill on
the north side of the river where the natives will not or pre-
tend that they will not venture to go, and say that a small
people live there, whom they are afraid of. At 11 o’clock,
the gentlemen not having returned, we set sail with a gentle
breeze from the S$. E. passed black bluffs on the south side,
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and continued on nine miles and encamped. Two of our
hunters came in who had killed a large elk. Captains Lewis
and Clarke did not return this evening.
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catfish, that together would weigh three hundred pounds. The large catfish are caught in the Missouri with hook and line. Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke went to see a hill on the north side of the river where the natives will not, or pretend that they will not, venture to go, saying that a small people live there whom they are afraid of.
At 11 o'clock, the gentlemen not having returned, we set sail with a gentle breeze from the S.E., passed black bluffs on the south side, and continued on nine miles and camped. Two of our hunters came in, having killed a large elk. Captains Lewis and Clarke did not return this evening.
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