The party re-united
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August 12, 1806
At 1 p.m. I overtook Captain Clark and party and had the pleasure of finding
them all well. As writing in my present situation is extremely painful
to me I shall desist until I recover and leave to my friend Captain Clark
the continuation of our journal.
--Meriwether Lewis
August 12, 1806
I was alarmed on the landing of the canoes to be informed that Captain Lewis was wounded by an accident... I examined the wound and found it a very bad flesh wound,... Captain Lewis informed me the accident happened the day before by one of the men, Peter Crusat, mistaking him in the thick bushes to be an elk...
--William Clark
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