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Octr. 11th. 1805 Friday[1]

a cloudy morning wind set out early course

                 

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S. 40°.W.  1 ½  miles to pt. of rocks on the Lbd. below a bottom &
opsd. one psd an old Lodge in the Ld bottom
 
West  miles to a Stard. bend passed a rapid at ½ mile 2
large Indn houses in a bottom on the Stard Side
above & below the rapid, rockey hill sides
 
S. 40°. W.  miles to the mouth of a branch on the Lard. bend,
several Lodges at the branch and a house opposit
vacant, we Purchased 7 dogs & fish roots &c to eat
 
S. 75°. W.  1 ½  mile in the Lard. bend passed a rapid Point swift water 
N. 40°. E  mile to a bend Std. at a rapid psd a large Indn. house
Std Side
 
N. 60°. W.  miles to a Lard bend at a rapid bad no timber except
a fiew low Hackburries & a fiew willows. we
Purchd, Dried cherries Pashequar root and Pashequar
marsh
[mash] or bread. Prise the shells verry much,
also Iron wire 
N. 10°. W.  miles to a Stard bend at a rapid, 2 Ind. Huts on the
Std Side
 
N. 40°. W.  mile to a Std. bend psd. a Std point to an Indian camp
of 3 Lodges on the Stard. Side, Dined & purchased
3 Dogs and a fiew dried fish for our voyage down,
one Indian accompanyed us
 
S. 60°. W.  mile to a Stard bend passed a Stard point and 2 Indian
Houses all the houses are deserted the owners out
in the plains killing the antelope, saw gees &
Ducks
 
S 30°. W  to a Lard bend opsd. old Indian Camp 
N. 60. W  miles to clift in a Stard bend psd a rapid at ½ mile, an
Indian cabin on the Std Side 
West  ½  a mile to a Lard bend 
N. 10° W  1 ½  miles to a Std. bend passd. a cabin S. 
West  2 ½  miles to a Lard. bend passed a rapid opsd. a stoney
Island from Stard opsd which S is an Indian Cabin,
a rapid at the Lower point of Isd
 
N. W.  3½/30  miles to the mouth of a run in the Stard. Bend at 2 Indian
Lodges, here we camped, met an Indian from
below Purchased 3 dogs and a fiew dried fish,
this is a great fishing place a house below evacuated
wind a head
 

 
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The first draft entries of this chapter are from the Clark-Voorhis field-book.—Ed.