Patrick Gass: November 29, 1806
The party set out early, passed Captain Clark's campsite from the 8th, and reached the Burnt Bluffs, where they spotted elk. Captain Lewis and one of the men went out to hunt, but Lewis soon returned wounded. Fearing an Indian attack, the men armed themselves, and Gass took three men to scout the thick brush. They found no Indians, and learned the hunter accidentally shot Lewis through the hips. After dressing two elk, they continued downriver and found a note from Clark reporting that Indians had stolen the horses brought from the Yellowstone.
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We set out early, passed Captain Clarke's (Captain Clark's) encampment of the night of the 8th instant, and proceeded on to the Burnt Bluffs, where we saw a gang of buffalo feeding. Captain Lewis (Capt. Lewis) and one of the men went as a party to endeavor to kill some of them; we also saw another gang.
In a short time Captain Lewis returned wounded and very weak. He alarmed us to our arms, supposing he had been shot by Indians. Having prepared for an attack, I went with three men to reconnoiter and examine the bushes, which are very thick at this place, but found no Indians. After some time we met the man who had gone out with Captain Lewis, and learned upon inquiry that he had shot him through the hips without knowing it.
Having made this discovery, we examined the wound and found the ball, which had passed through. The canoes having come down, we proceeded on, after dressing two elk that had been killed at this place, and passed an encampment which Captain Clarke had left in the morning. We found a note here informing us that the Indians had stolen all the horses which he had sent with a sergeant and party from Yellow Stone river, and that the sergeant with the party came down in skin canoes and met him at this place. We then proceeded on some distance further and encamped.
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