They Had Killed Several Buffalo At The Bend Of
The Missouri Above The Falls, Dried About Eight Hundred Pounds Of Meat,
And Got One Hundred Pounds Of Tallow; They Had Also Killed Some Deer,
But Had Seen No Elk."
Under this date, too, Captain Lewis, who was with another branch
of the expedition, makes this note:
"Such as were able to shake
a foot amused themselves in dancing on the green to the music
of the violin which Cruzatte plays extremely well."
The journal continues: -
"We were now occupied [at White Bear camp] in fitting up a boat of skins,
the frame of which had been prepared for the purpose at Harper's Ferry
in Virginia. It was made of iron, thirty-six feet long, four and
one-half feet in the beam, and twenty-six inches wide in the bottom.
Two men had been sent this morning for timber to complete it,
but they could find scarcely any even tolerably straight sticks four
and one-half feet long; and as the cottonwood is too soft and brittle,
we were obliged to use willow and box-elder."
On the twenty-seventh, the main party, which was working on the upper
part of the portage, joined that of Captain Clark at the lower camp,
where a second cache, or place of deposit, had been formed,
and where the boat-swivel was now hidden under the rocks.
The journal says: -
"The party were employed in preparing timber for the boat, except two
who were sent to hunt.
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