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Camped at a handsom narrow bottom covered with thin cwood ti?mber where 50 or 60 lodges of Indians had lately been camped they were gone as we unclear up the river they left several lodge poles & considerable of fire wood gathered. 2 of the hunters went across the river on the hill & killed 2 buffaloe.-- Friday 31 May 1805. cloudy we set off as usal the canoes passed? the river & the men went for the meat which was killed last night, one of the hunters killed an elk. we proceeded unclear abt 11 oc. began to rain, rained moderately for some time passed verry high clifts of rocks, halted at 12 oc.noon to dine?. our Captains gave each man a draughm of spirits as it was wet, Capt Lewis killed a fat buffaloe. & Some of the hunters killed 2 more but lost one of them in the river. abt 1 oc we proceeded on passed high white clifts of ro?? & some pinicles which ? 100 feet high from the surface of the water. Some verry high black walls of stone 174