Sutton Bay, SD After a cold, rainy morning, the expedition waits for the wind to subside before heading up the Missouri. They discover that mice are eating their corn, paper, and cloth. Lewis adds specimens to his plant collection.
Deer Mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus
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Mice Problems
examoned our Stores & goods, Several bags Cut by the mice and Corn Scattered, Some of our Cloth also cut by them also papers &c. &c
—William Clark
Searching for a Channel
we attempted Several Chanels and Could not find water to assend, landed on a Sand bar & Concluded to Stay all night, & Send out and hunt a Chanell,
—William Clark
Long-leaved Sagewort
Artemisia longifolia
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Pasture Sagewort Specimen
Radix perennial 3 to 8 stalks as high as the specimen growth of the high sides of the Bluff
—Meriwether Lewis[1]Artemisia frigida, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 19c.
Long-leaved Sagewort Specimen
No 53 October 3rd
flavor like the chamomile radix perennial growth of the high bluffs
—Meriwether Lewis[2]Artemisia longifolia, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 20.
Weather Diary
Thermot. at rise
Weather Wind at thermotr. at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 oC P.M. 40 cloudy N W 45 cloudy after rain & fair N W the earth and sand which form the bars of the river are so fully impregnated with salt that it shoots and adhers to the little sticks which appear on the serface it is pleasent & seems niterous.—
—Meriwether Lewis[3]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
