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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents
  
  
  
  
  
  
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24th of November Satturday 1804—
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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24th of November Satturday 1804—

a warm Day Several men with bad colds we continued to
cover our Huts with hewed Punchins,[26] finishd. a Cord to
draw our boat out on the bank, this is made of 9 strans of Elk
Skin, the wind from the S.E.

 
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The "puncheons" used in pioneer architecture were simply logs hewn on one
side, so as to form a tolerably level surface for floor or ceiling.—Ed.