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Tuesday 18th.. June 1805.

a fine pleasant day. in the morning all hands halled out
the White perogue, in a thicked of bushes below the bank &
covered hir with bushes &c. & Secured hir Safe. 3 men Sent


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out a Short distance to a knob to dig a carsh or hole to deposite
Some of our baggage in, for we mean to leave all we can
Spare at this place. Some men at Sorting & repacking the
Indian Goods &c. about 12 oC. the 2 hunters came in had
killed 10 Deer but no Elk. in the evening we Saw Some
buffalow on the opposite Side of the River. Some of the
hunters went over and killed 2 of them. the low waggons
finished which are all made of wood, & of an ordinarry quality
though they may answer the purpose. the wind high from
the West.