The party finally set sail up the Missouri River on Monday, May 21, 1804, but made only a few miles, owing to head winds.

Four days later they camped near the last white settlement on the Missouri,--La Charrette, a little village of seven poor houses.

Here lived Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky backwoodsman, then nearly seventy years old, but still vigorous, erect, and strong of limb.

Here and above this place the explorers began to meet with unfamiliar Indian tribes and names.

For example, they met two canoes loaded with furs "from the Mahar nation." The writer of the Lewis and Clark journal, upon whose notes we rely for our story, made many slips of this sort.