@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} June 8, 1805 @section 3 {txc} June 8th Saturday 1805 rained moderately all the last night & Some this morning untill 10 oClock, I am Some what uneasy for Capt# Lewis & party as days has now passed the time he was to have returned, I had all the arms put in order and permited Severall men to hunt, aired and dried our Stores &c# The rivers at this point has fallen 6 Inches Sinc our arrival, at 10 oClock cleared away and became fair ¬ the wind all the morning from the S# W# & hard ¬ The water of the South fork is of a redish brown colour this morning the other river of a whitish colour as usual The mountains to the South Covered with Snow. Wind Shifted to the N E in the evening, about 5 oClock Capt# Lewis arrived with the party much fatigued, and inform'd me that he had assended the river about 60 miles by Land and that the river had a bold current of about 80 or 100 yards wide the bottoms of Gravel & mud, and may be estimated at 5 feet water in Sholest parts =

Some rain in the evening. the left hand fork rose a little.

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