August 16, 1804

On August 16, 1804, Capt. Lewis took 12 men to the pond and creek between camp and the old village and caught more than 800 fine fish, including 79 pike, 8 fish resembling salmon trout, 8 salmon, 1 rock, 1 flat back, 127 buffalow and red horse, 4 bass, 490 catfish, and many small silver fish. That day a mast was made and fixed to the boat, the party sent to the Ottoes had not yet rejoined them, and each evening a breeze rose that blew away the mosquitoes and cooled the atmosphere.

Sioux City, Iowa · United States