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[Clark, first draft:]

October 6th Sunday 1805.

A cool morning wind East for a short time, which is always
a cool wind, had a cach made for our saddles and buried them
on the side of a Pond.

Magnetic azmuth of Sun A. M.

       
Time  azmth  altitude 
H.  M.  S. 
27  75°.  42°  58′  00″ 
18  21  S.  73  45  46  45 
finish all the Canoes late. I am verry sick all night, Pane
in Stomach & the bowels oweing to my diet

Equal altitudes 6th Septr. [Oct.] with Sextent

       
H.  m.  H.  m. 
A.M.  16  21.5  P.M.  45  34.5 
18  20.5  47  34.5 
20  17.5  49  26.5 

Took time and distance of moons Western Limb and a Arquilé,
[Aquilæ] Star West.


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Time  distance 
H.  M.  s.  ° 
P.M.  25  55  58  54  15 
28  34  55  30 
32  47  56  45 
34  40  57 
36  53  57  45 
38  41  58  30 
40  35  59  15 
42  14  59  45 
43  37  59  00 
45  21  45 

Took time and Distance of Moons Western Limb from Alberian
[Aldebaran] Star East

                   
Time  distance 
h.  m.  ° 
52  65  29  15 
12  28  00 
13  47  27  15 
16  27  15 
18  28  00 
19  49  24  30 
21  12  24  00 
22  44  23  30 

October 6th Saturday [Sunday] 1805

A Co[o]l Easterley Wind which Springs up in the latter
part of the night and continues untill about 7 or 8 oClock
A.M. had all our Saddles Collected a whole dug and in the
night buried them, also a Canister of powder and a bag of
Balls at the place the Canoe which Shields made was cut from
the body of the tree. The Saddles were burried on the Side
of a bend about ½ mile below. all the Canoes finished this
evening ready to be put into the water. I am taken verry
unwell with a pain in the bowels & Stomach, which is certainly
the effects of my diet which last all night.


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The winds blow cold from a little before day untill the Suns
gets to Some hight from the Mountains East as they did from
the Mountains at the time we lay at the falls of Missouri from
the West

The river below this forks is Called Kos-kos-kee it is Clear
rapid with Shoals or Swift places

The open Countrey Commences a fiew miles below this on
each side of the river, on the Lard Side below the 1st Creek.
with a few trees Scattered near the river.[66]

 
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The astronomical observations are omitted, as they are transcripts of those found
in the first draft.—Ed.