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Sateday Augt. 11.

Rain came on at the hour of 3 Oclock A. M. a heavy wind
blew after. the Crafts got under way at 6 Oclock favourd. With
a South Wind, passd. a bluff whare the Black bird the late
King of the Mahars Was buried 4 years ago the Officers took
a flagg with them and Assended the hill which was 300 feet
higher than the water left the white flagg on a pole Stuck on
his Grave. Road. 18 Miles [camped] on the E. S.