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13th. Septr. Thursday 1804—

A Dark drizzley Day, G. D. Cought 4 Beaver last night
the wind from the NW. Cold Set out early and proceeded
on verry well, passed a number of Sand bars, Capt. Lewis
Killed a Porcupin on a Cotton tree feeding on the leaves &
bowers [boughs —[Ed.] of the said tree, the water is verry
Shallow (in places) being Crowded with Sand bars Camped
on the S. Side under a Bluff. the Bluff on the S. S. not so
much impregnated with mineral as on the L. S. Muskeetors
verry troublesom.

Course Distance and refurences Sept. 14

         
N. 68°. W.  2 3/4  Mls. to a pt. of high Land on the L. S. passd. a round
Island on the S. S. 
S. 70°. W.  2 1/2  Mls. to a tree in the pt. on the L. S. passed the Mo.
of a run on the L. S. 
N. 4°. W.  2 1/2  Mls. to the mouth of a Small Creek[25] on the bend to
the L. S. 
N. 10° E.  1 1/4  Mls. to to the Mouth of a Creek on the L. S. passed
a bad Sand bar. 
 
[25]

A little above the present site of Brulé City, S. D.—Coues (L. and C., i,
p. 116).