There Clark set his drenched, hungry, and dispirited followers to building some pirogues; while two or three unsuccessful attempts were made to get men across the river that they might steal boats.

He determined to leave his horses at this camp; for it was almost impossible to get them further.

[Footnote: This is not exactly stated in the "Memoir"; but it speaks of the horses as being with the troops on the 20th; and after they left camp, on the evening of the 21st, states that he "would have given a good deal ...

for one of the horses."] Hardship and Suffering.
On the morning of the 20th the men had been without food for nearly two days.

Many of the Creole volunteers began to despair, and talked of returning.