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Wednesday 1st. day of May 1805

a CLEAR pleasant morning but cold. we Set off at Sun
rise, the wind from the east. we Sailed Some. we
passed high bluffs and round knobs on the S. S. and
bottoms of timber on each Side of the River. the hills in
general are not so high as they have been below, the country
more pleasant, and the timber more pleanty. about 12 oClock
the wind rose So high that we were oblidged to halt in a bottom
of timber on the South Side. one cannoe lay on the opposite
Shore & could not cross. I and one more was in the cannoe
and ware obledged to lay out all night without any blanket. it
being verry cold I Suffered verry much. Some of the party
went out to hunt. they killed one buffaloe one Deer 2 beaver
and one Goose. the party camped opposite to where I lay all
night the man who was with me killd. a Deer. (came only 10
miles to day)