@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} September 20, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 20th of September, Thursday 1804 a fair morning wind from the S E detached 2 men to the 1st# Creek abov the big bend with the horse to hunt and wait our arrival proceeded on passed the lower Island opposit which the Sand bars are verry thick & the water Shoal. I walked on Shore with a view of examining this bend Crossed at the narost part which is a high irregular hills of about 180 or 190 feet, this place the gorge of the Bend is 1 mile & a quarter (from river to river or) across, from this high land which is only in the Gouge, the bend is a Butifull Plain thro which I walked, Saw numbrs of Buffalow & Goats, I saw a Hare & believe he run into a hole in the Side of a hill, he run up this hill which is Small & has Several holes on the Side & I could not See him after, I joined the boat in the evening ¬ passed a Small Island on the L# S# in the N# W# extremity of the bind Called Solitary Island, and Camped late on a Sand bar near the S# S# ¬ R# Fields killed 1 Deer & 2 Goats one of them a feemale ¬ She Differs from the mail as to Size being Smaller, with Small Horns, Stright with a Small prong without any black about the neck None of those Goats has any Beard, they are all Keenly made, and is butifull =