Beaver Lodge on the Missouri

Description

The Flora encountered low water, swift currents, rain, and clouds of mosquitoes during the first ten days out from Fort Union. On July 17, near the place where another keelboat had been wrecked in a storm the previous summer, passengers observed a large beaver lodge. Bodmer made a study on this date which formed the basis for the later aquatint designated as Vignette XVII in the atlas published in Europe.