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Sunday 30th.. Sept. 1804.

Set off eairly. a cloudy morning. we proceeded on Saw
a Great nomber of Indians on the S. S. comming down the
river. we halted a fiew minutes and Gave them Some tobacco
& Spoke a fiew words to them, and went on under a fine
breeze of wind. towards night the waves ran & our boat
rocked So that it Skared our old Indian which was on board
He was afraid to go any further with us, and went out on
Shore in order to return to his nation. we Camped on the
N. S. of the river.