A Fire Being Made, Captain Lewis
Had His Breakfast, During Which Drewyer Brought In A Third Deer.
This Too, After Reserving One-Quarter, Was Given To The Indians,
Who Now Seemed Completely Satisfied And In Good Humor."
They now approached the forks of the Jefferson, where they
had expected to meet Clark and his party with the canoes.
Not seeing any signs of them, the Lewis party were placed in a
critical position.
The Indians were again alarmed and suspicious.
Here Captain Clark's journal says: -
"As they went on towards the point, Captain Lewis, perceiving how
critical his situation had become, resolved to attempt a stratagem,
which his present difficulty seemed completely to justify.
Recollecting the notes he had left at the point for us, he sent Drewyer
for them with an Indian, who witnessed his taking them from the pole.
When they were brought, Captain Lewis told Cameahwait that, on leaving
his brother chief at the place where the river issues from the mountains,
it was agreed that the boats should not be brought higher than the next
forks we should meet; but that, if the rapid water prevented the boats
from coming on as fast as they expected, his brother chief was to send
a note to the first forks above him, to let him know where they were:
that this note had been left this morning at the forks, and mentioned
that the canoes were just below the mountains, and coming up slowly
in consequence of the current.
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