The beaver were basking in great numbers along the shore; there were also some young wild geese and ducks.

The mosquitoes were very troublesome during the day, but after sunset the weather became cool and they disappeared." Three-thousand-mile Island was so named by the explorers, when they ascended these streams, because it was at a point exactly three thousand miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

But no such island exists now; it has probably been worn away by the swift-rushing current of the river.
The route of Captain Clark and his party, up to this time had been a few miles west of Bannock City, Montana.

As the captain was now to proceed by land to the Yellowstone, again leaving the canoe party, it is well to recall the fact that his route from the Three Forks of the Missouri to the Yellowstone follows pretty nearly the present line of the railroad from Gallatin City to Livingston, by the way of Bozeman Pass.

Of this route the journal says:-- "Throughout the whole, game was very abundant.