Some rain from 10 to 12 last night, this morning fair, have everything put on board the Canoes and Set out to the place Capt Lewis had viewed and thought well Situated for winter quarters _ we proceeded on against the tide to a point about [blank] miles here we met Sergt Pryor and his party … we proceeded on around the point into the bay and landed to take brackfast on 2 Deer which had been killed & hung up, one of which we found the other had been taken off by [s]ome wild animal probably Panthors or the Wild [cat?] of this Countrey here all the party of Serjt Pryors joined us except my man York, who had stopped to rite his load and missed his way … after brackfast I delayed about half an hour before York came up, and them proceeded around this Bay which I have taken the liberty of calling Meriwether’s Bay the Cristian name of Capt. Lewis who no doubt was the 1st white man who ever Surveyed this Bay, we assended a river which falls in on the South Side of this Bay 3 miles to the first point of high land on the West Side, the place Capt. Lewis had viewed and formed in a thick groth of pine about 200 yards from the river, this situation is on a rise about 30 feet higher than the high tides leavel and thickly Covered with lofty pine. This is certainly the most eligable Situation for our purposes of any in its neighborhood.