River to their old camp above the Great Falls.
Here they made a couple of bull boats, and on July 12th they crossed to
the old camp and found the _cache_ which they had made there. A good
many of the things were spoiled in the _cache_, which they had built too
low, so that the high water had flooded it.

"Now they reached their old friends, the white bears, which were just as
ferocious as ever. So were the mosquitoes. Lewis dreads these mosquitoes
more than anything else.

"Now the _Journal_ says that Lewis determined to go up the Marias River.
He left McNeal, Thompson and Goodrich, Gass, Frazier and Werner, here at
the Falls. He took with him six horses and had along Drewyer and the two
Fields boys--about his best hunters. They left Sergeant Gass four
horses, so that he could get the boats around the portage as soon as
Ordway and the boats came down the Missouri.

"Now I want you to stop and think how these people were making
connections, scattered all through this country as they were. On July
19th, here came Ordway and his nine men with the canoes! Then they
doubled party again, to portage, and in four days, with the aid of the
horses, they got the stuff all below the Falls. Gass and one man swam
the horses across the river; Ordway and the others took the canoes. They
all reached the mouth of the Marias River July 28th. By that time, of
course, Clark was over on the Yellowstone, having crossed the Gallatin
Pass from here.

"Now Lewis was on the north side of the river with three men. He knew he
was going up into the Blackfeet country, and he must have known
something of the reputation of that tribe. But those men would go almost
anywhere. Now they were among the buffalo, so they felt safe for food.

"They left the river July 16th, and on July 21st they got into country
which you and I can identify--the mouth of Two Medicine Creek, where it
meets the Cutbank, both of which rise in Glacier Park. I've had fine
fishing up in there.

"Now they pushed on up north up the Cutbank, forded where the Great
Northern Railroad is now, and went on five miles beyond that. You see,
they were now clear up almost to the northern line of Montana; whereas
you and I have seen them almost to the southern line of Montana. And
look at all the waterways they had covered!

"This was Lewis's farthest north. Drewyer found out that there were
Indians in that country. Perhaps that accounted for the scarcity of game
they now felt. They con