In The Course Of The Day The Hunters Killed
Two Deer, Some Geese And Ducks, And The Party Saw Some Antelopes,
Cranes, Beaver, And Otter."
Captain Lewis had left a note for Captain Clark at the forks
of the Jefferson and Wisdom rivers.
Clark's journal says: -
"We arrived at the forks about four o'clock, but, unluckily, Captain Lewis's
note had been attached to a green pole, which the beaver had cut down,
and carried off with the note on it: an accident which deprived us
of all information as to the character of the two branches of the river.
Observing, therefore, that the northwest fork was most in our direction,
we ascended it. We found it extremely rapid, and its waters were
scattered in such a manner that for a quarter of a mile we were forced
to cut a passage through the willow-brush that leaned over the little
channels and united at the top. After going up it for a mile, we encamped
on an island which had been overflowed, and was still so wet that we
were compelled to make beds of brush to keep ourselves out of the mud.
Our provision consisted of two deer which had been killed in the morning."
It should be borne in mind that this river, up which the party
were making their way, was the Wisdom (now Big Hole), and was
the northwest fork of the Jefferson, flowing from southeast
to northwest; and near the point where it enters the Jefferson,
it has a loop toward the northeast; that is to say, it comes
from the southwest to a person looking up its mouth.
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