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Saturday 20th.. July 1805.

a clear morning. we Set out as usal and proceeded on. at
8 oClock we came to a lower part of the mountains. we found
along the Shores a great quantity of currents of all kinds yallow
red & black they are now ripe, and we eat pleanty of them
the black kind are the most pallatiable. one of the men killed

one Elk, and found the Skin of another which Capt. Clark had
killed and left a note letting us know that he would only go
over the range of these mountains and wait our arival. the
current verry rapid. passed a Small creek on the South Side.
about 2 oClock P. M. we got through this range of mountains.
Saw an other range a head. Saw a smoak in the valley between
Some level plains in the valley. Some timber Scatering along
the River. proceeded on Saw a great nomber of otter along
the Shores. passed a plain on the N. S. in the valley between
2 mountains. this valley is uneaven & hilley. we Came 15
miles to day and Camped at a Spring on the South Side of the
River. the prickley pears verry thick &c.