AJ-100a: Lewis & Clark, Original Journals (1804-6)

              







the ORIGINAL JOURNALS
OF

LEWIS AND
CLARK



    CHAPTER
I


FROM RIVER DUBOIS TO THE
PLATTE
    Clark's Journal and
Orders, January 30-July 229,
804
    Entries and Orders by Lewis,
February 0o, March 3, May 15, 20, 26, and July 8,
x2


    [PRELIMINARY
MEMORANDA]
CClark]
    APTS LEWIS
& CLARK wintered at the
enterance
    of a  Small river
opposit    the 
Mouth    of
Missouri
    Called
Wood    River,l where
they    formed    th
ir party,
Composed of robust helthy hardy young men,
recomended
[Sentence unfinished.
-    ED.].2
  [The following
memoranda of events in the history of the
expedition
prior to its departure from River Dubois, May 14,
1804,
are selected from    a record, mainly of
natural phenomena,
kept by Clark, which is written near
the end of Codex C;

  1 Local traditions here place
the mouth of the Missouri River in 1803 at one
mile north
of Maple Island; it is now four miles below the island.  The
mouth of
Wood River is one mile below Maple Island, and
is supposed to have been in the
same place in I803. -G.
B. DORSEY, Gillespie, Ill.
  2 This unfinished memorandum
is found on the fly-leaf at beginning of the
small
note-book designated by Elliott Coues - in his
report upon the journals, made to the
American
Philosophical Society, Jan. 20, 1893, and reprinted in our
Appendix, post
- as ""c Codex A,"" from which book is
here reproduced Clark's journal of the expedi-
tion from
May 1 3 to August 14, 1804.  Occasional entries, written by
Lewis during
that period, will be here designated by his
name within brackets at the beginning of
such matter.

As stated in the Introduction to the present volume, there
are two collections of
original journals of the explorers
- that made by Thomas Jefferson and now in the
custody of
the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia; and that
owned by
    [3]