LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNALS [Jan. 30
this begins at p. 231, and continues (the pages being in reverse order) to p. 216, covering the time from Jan. 1, 1804 to April 7, 1805. The expedition had gone into camp in December. - ED.]
Capt Lewis arrived from Kahokia
The weather had been clear since Cap' Lewis lef[t] Camp untill this[1]
Visited St Charles
Return from St Charles after haveing arrested the progress of a Kickapoo war party
I arrived at River Dubois from St Charles
Capt Lewis returned to Camp
Tried Several men for missconduct
Capt Lewis went to St. Louis. Hay arrive [d]
[The following memorandum, by both Lewis and Clark, occupies a detached sheet in the Clark-Voorhis collection. -Ed.]
[Lewis:]
Information of John Hay, commencing at the discharge of the Ottertail Lake, which forms the source of the Red River, to his winter station on the Assinneboin River.
Footnotes
- ↑ Lewis appears to have spent his time chiefly in St. Louis, where, on March 9 and 10, he was principal witness to the formal transfer of Upper Louisiana. See act of transfer, in Billon, Annals of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1886), pp. 360, 361. - Ed.
Mrs. Julia Clark Voorhis and Miss Eleanor Glasgow Voorhis, of New York-grand- daughter and great grand-daughter, respectively, of William Clark. In all references to the Philadelphia codices, we shall for convenience give Coues's letterer designations thereof (e. g., "Codex A "); the four Yoarhis nore-books will be designated by their Arabic numerals (e. g., "Clark-Vocrbis note-book, No. :"). Other Clark manuscripts in the Voorhis collection will be specifically alluded to, as they appear in our volumes. - ED.
