The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, May 15, 1805

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Clark, May 15, 1805

May 15th Wednesday 1805

Our medisons, Instruments, merchandize, Clothes, provisions &c. &c. which was nearly all wet we had put out to air and dry. the day being Cloudy & rainey those articles dried but little to day- our hunters killed Several deer &c. and Saw three Bear one of which they wounded &c.

We see Buffalow on the banks dead, others floating down dead, and others mired every day, those buffalow either drown in Swiming the river or brake thro the ice