After passing the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, now Beaver River, Lewis came to anchor off McIntosh, two and a half miles away, where he discharged one of his hands. After passing the riffle below McIntosh, the party became stuck about three miles farther downstream on another riffle, which Lewis considered the worst they had yet passed. They had to unload and drag the boats over with horses, and stayed all night after making only six miles. As they journeyed down the Ohio River, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery gathered men and supplies. Lewis began keeping his journal in Pittsburgh, and Clark joined him at the Falls of the Ohio as the first of the great expeditions began.
