It was made of iron, thirty-six feet long, four and one-half feet in the beam, and twenty-six inches wide in the bottom.

Two men had been sent this morning for timber to complete it, but they could find scarcely any even tolerably straight sticks four and one-half feet long; and as the cottonwood is too soft and brittle, we were obliged to use willow and box-elder." On the twenty-seventh, the main party, which was working on the upper part of the portage, joined that of Captain Clark at the lower camp, where a second cache, or place of deposit, had been formed, and where the boat-swivel was now hidden under the rocks.

The journal says:-- "The party were employed in preparing timber for the boat, except two who were sent to hunt.

About one in the afternoon a cloud arose from the southwest, and brought with it violent thunder, lightning, and hail.
Soon after it passed, the hunters came in, from about four miles above us.

They had killed nine elk and three bears.