John Shields cut out my small rifle & brought hir to shoot very well. the party ows much to the injinuity of this man, by whome their guns are repared when they get out of order which is very often.

Soon after those people arived the old man was detected in stealing a spoon and he was ordered away, ...

April 08, 1806
John Ordway

a fair morning.   the wind raised So high a head that in Stead of our Setting out as we intended had to unload our canoes.  the waves rain high and filled them with water &C  Several men Sent out a hunting  put our dry meat on a Scaffel & dry it a little more &C.  the wind still raiseing.   The River Rises a little   the wind continued high all day &C

April 08, 1806
Patrick Gass

This was a fine morning, but the wind blew so hard from the northeast that it was impossible to go on; and about 8 o'clock the swells ran so high that we had to unload our canoes, and haul some of them out of the water to prevent their being injured. Some of the men are complaining of rheumatick pains; which are to be expected from the wet and cold we suffered last winter; during which, from the 4th of November 1805, to the 25th of March, 1806, there were not more than twelve days in which it did not rain, and of these but six were clear. Two hunters, who had gone out in the morning returned, but had killed nothing, except a beautiful small duck.