Very Glad To Be
Released From This Danger, Captain Lewis Returned To The Shore,
And Observed Him Run With Great
Speed, sometimes looking back
as if he expected to be pursued, till he reached the woods.
He could not conceive
The cause of the sudden alarm of the bear,
but congratulated himself on his escape when he saw his own track
torn to pieces by the furious animal, and learned from the whole
adventure never to suffer his rifle to be a moment unloaded."
Captain Lewis now resumed his progress towards the western, or Sun, River,
then more commonly known among the Indians as Medicine River. In going
through the lowlands of this stream, he met an animal which he thought
was a wolf, but which was more likely a wolverine, or carcajou.
The journal says: -
"It proved to be some brownish yellow animal, standing near its burrow,
which, when he came nigh, crouched, and seemed as if about to spring on him.
Captain Lewis fired, and the beast disappeared in its burrow.
From the track, and the general appearance of the animal, he supposed
it to be of the tiger kind. He then went on; but, as if the beasts
of the forest had conspired against him, three buffalo bulls,
which were feeding with a large herd at the distance of half a mile,
left their companions, and ran at full speed towards him.
He turned round, and, unwilling to give up the field, advanced to meet them:
when they were within a hundred yards they stopped, looked at him for
some time, and then retreated as they came.
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