1804]
DUBOIS TO PLATTE
M: Garrous[1] Boat loaded with provisions pass up for Prarie du chien, to trade
at St. Louis
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The Country about the Mouth of Missouri is pleasent rich and partially Settled On the East Side of the Mississippi a leavel rich bottom extends back about 3 miles, and rises by several elevations to the high Country, which is thinly timbered with Oakes & On the lower Side of the Missouri, at about miles back the Country rises graduilly, to a high plesent thinly timberd Country, the lands are generally fine on the River bottoms and well calculating for farming on the upper Country
in the point the Bottom is extensive and emensly rich for 15 or 20 miles up each river, and about 2/3 of which is open leavel plains in which the inhabtents of St Charles & portage de Scioux had ther crops of corn & wheat. on the upland is a fine farming country partially timbered for Some distance back.
[DISCIPLINE AND ORGANIZATION]
[The following" Detachment Orders" are in the Voorhis collection of Lewis and Clark manuscripts - see note 2, p. 3, ante. The documents show that the "robust helthy hardy young men," many of them fresh from the Kentucky woods, found it not easy to accustom themselves to the rigid discipline of a military corps; and illustrate the difficulties which beset the two captains during the first winter camp. The orders relating to the personnel of the expedition, with the organization of the messes, etc., are especially interesting and suggestive.- ED.][2]
- ↑ Little is known of this Garreau, save that it is probably his son Pierre (whose mother was an Arikara woman) who was long an interpreter at Fort Berthold; see Coues's Narrative of Larpenteur (N. Y., 1898), i, pp. 125, 126. Clark's Garreau may be the Jearreau (of Cahokia, Ill.) mentioned by Pike iu 1806; see Coues's Expeditions of Pike (N. Y., 1895), i, p. 263. - ED.
- ↑ The first two orders (Lewis) are on separate sheets of paper. The others are. contained in a pocket gote-book, which we designate as the Orderly Book," This
