." "In the evening we killed three deer and four elk, which furnished us once more with a plentiful supply of meat.

Shannon, the same man who had been lost for fifteen days (August 28 to Sept.

11, 1804), was sent out this morning to hunt, up the northwest fork.

When we decided on returning, Drewyer was directed to go in quest of him, but he returned with information that he had gone several miles up the (Wisdom) river without being able to find Shannon.

We now had the trumpet sounded, and fired several guns; but he did not return, and we fear he is again lost." This man, although an expert hunter, had an unlucky habit of losing himself in the wilderness, as many another good man has lost himself among the mountains or the great plains.