The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 27, 1805

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
August 26, 1805
August 28, 1805

August 27, 1805

August 27th Tuesday 1805

Some frost this morning every Man except one, out hunting, a young man Came from the upper Village & informed me that Capt Lewis would join me abt. 12 oClock to day. one man killed a Small Sammon, and the Indians gave me another which afforded us a Sleight brackfast. Those Pore people are here depending on what fish They Can Catch, without anything else to depend on; and appere Contented, my party hourly Complaining of their retched Situation and doubts of Starveing in a Countrey where no game of any kind except a fiew fish can be found, an Indian brough in to the Camp 5 Sammon, two of which I purchased which afforded us a Supper.

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