Historic Diaries: Floyd 1804
June 6, 1804
Editor's Note:
They fixed the mast broken two days before, but encountered more sandbars and snags this day, with the current rapid and the banks collapsing. Examine Karl Bodmer's painting of snags on the Missouri, made about 1830, to see what they were up against (you'll have to ignore the steamboat; Lewis and Clark sailed, rowed, towed and walked).
Wensday June 6th 1804
Set out 6 oclock, after ouer mast mended. 4 miles past a Creek on the N Side Called Rock Creek on the Loer Side Blow Cliftes. 3 miles past Sallin Creek on the South Side. Cliftes on the Loer Side. Water good the fore part of the day, the Latter part Strong. came 18 miles. ouer hunters Kild one Deer. encampet on the N Side
|
