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209 July 11th 1805. Thursday. a clear morning but high wind which oblidged us to lay at our camp untill late in the afternoon except the baggage canoe which went on 2 of the men went up to the camp and got some meat. towards evening the wind abated a little so that we went on arived at the upper camp about unclear and unloaded. the hunters had killed 2 fat buffalow and several deer. I walked a short distance in the plains today when we were waiting for the wind to abate and trod on a very large rattle snake it bit my leggin on my legg I shot it it was 4 feet 2 inches long and 5 inches and a half round. we took some fat meat on board and 4 of us set out with the 8 empty canoes to return to the lower camp we floated apart of of the night got about 8 miles the wind rose so that we halted untill morning Capt. Clark had got 2 fine unclear for.2 canoes and got them ready to dry out &c

July 12th Friday 1805 a clear morning the wind high from the N.W. we proceeded on down the river the wind so high that one canoe filled the