July 6th.. Satturday 1805
a heavy wind from the SW and some rain about midnight
last [night], at day light this morning a verry black Cloud
from the S. W, with a Contin[u]ed rore of thunder & some
lightining and rained and hailed tremendiously for about 1/2 an
hour, the hail was the Size of a Musket ball and covered the
ground. this hail & rain was accompan
d. by a hard wind which
lasted for a fiew minits, Cloudy all the forepart of the day,
after Part clear. dispatched 4 men in 2 Canoes to the falls,
to kill Buffalow, for their Skins & Meat others employd
about the boat, I cought Some Small fish this evening
