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15th of November Thursday 1804—
a cloudy morning, the ice run
much thicker than yesterday.
at 10 oClock G Drewyer[21]
& the
frenchman we Dispatched
yesterday came up from the Hunters, who is
incamped about
30 miles below. after about one hour we Dispatched a man
with orders to the hunters to proceed on without Delay thro
the
floating ice, we sent by the man Tin, to put on the parts
of the Perogue
exposed to the ice & a toe roape. The wind
Changeable all hands work
at their huts untill 1 oClock at
night. Swans passing to the South—
but fiew fowls (water) to
be Seen not one Indian came to our fort to
day
George
Drouillard (Drewyer) was son of Pierre Drouillard, an interpreter for the
British at Detroit in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The
father is said to
have rescued Simon Kenton from death at the stake (about
1779). George was slain
(May, 1810) in a fight with the Blackfeet.—
Ed.
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