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Catfish which is White Camp
26th. of July Thursday 1804—

the wind Blustering and hard from the South all day which
blowed the clouds of Sand in Such a manner that I could not
complete my pan [plan] in the tent, the Boat roled in Such
a manner that I could do nothing in that, & was Compessed
[compelled] to go to the woods and combat with the Musquetors,


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I opened the Tumer of a man on the left breast,
which discharged half a point [pint].

five Beaver Cough[t] near the Camp the flesh of which we
made use of. This evening we found verry pleasant. only
one Deer killed to day. The countrey back from Camp on
the S. S. is a bottom of about five mile wide, one half the
distance wood & the bals, plain high & Dry. The opposit
Side a high Hill about 170 foot rock foundation Covd. with
timber, back & below is a Plain.