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[Clark:]

July 13th.. Satturday 1805

a fair Calm Morning, verry cool before day. we were visited
by a Buffalow Bull who Came within a fiew Steps of one of the
Canoes as the men were at work. Capt. Lewis one man &c.
arrived over Land at 9 oClock, the wind rose and blew hard
from the S.E. the greater part of the day both Canoes finished
all to Corking & fixing ores &c. &c.

The Hunters killed 3 Buffalow the most of all the meat I
had dried for to make Pemitigon.[18] The Musquetors & knats
verry troublesom all day & night

 
[18]

Better known as pemmican–dried and pounded meat, mixed with fat.—Ed.