Having no shelter we ourselves were completely wet to the skin, and the wind and cold air made our situation very unpleasant." On the twelfth of August, the Lewis party met with two traders from Illinois.

These men were camped on the northeast side of the river; they had left Illinois the previous summer, and had been coming up the Missouri hunting and trapping.

Captain Lewis learned from them that Captain Clark was below; and later in that day the entire expedition was again united, Captain Clark's party being found at a point near where Little Knife Creek enters the Missouri River.

We must now take up the narrative of Captain Clark and his adventures on the Yellowstone..