On June 21, 1804, a few miles above the future site of Lexington, the Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered rapids on the Missouri River that roared like an immense falls. Navigator Pierre Cruzatte chose a difficult route as the men towed the keelboat and two pirogues through swift water past what are now Sniabar Creek and the former hairpin loop later called Camden Bend, part of which survives as Sunshine Lake. William Clark described low bottoms covered with cottonwood and willow and high bottoms supporting trees, while Sgt. John Ordway, hunting with George Drouillard, praised the fine timbered land and rich bottom land. The party camped that night on the south shore near present-day Camden. On June 22, after the river had risen four inches overnight, the expedition again used towropes in exhausting heat, according to Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse, then moved beyond the site of Napoleon and passed between large islands beside a broad prairie now known as Fire Prairie. Lewis went ashore there and walked several miles, and the men camped at the upper end of Fire Prairie opposite the creek they called River of the Fire Prairie or Big Fire Prairie Creek, now Fishing River. Pierre Cruzatte and Francois Labiche, mixed-ancestry Missouri River boatmen enlisted as privates, also served as interpreters and as bow men on the keelboat, where their job was to find the best passages through dangerous currents; Cruzatte also played the fiddle for the men. In Clark's later record of the expedition members' fates, Cruzatte was listed as killed by 1825-1828, while Labiche was listed as still living in St. Louis.