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Monday 19th.. August 1805.

a cold morning. we Set our net across this little Stream in
hopes to catch Some fish. Several traps Set for beaver.
caught no fish in the net. Caught one beaver in a trap. a
white frost this morning a clear pleasant day, all hands
employed in dressing Skins & Sorting the Indian goods &
packing up the baggage. Some at makeing pack Saddles &c.
three men out with a horse to hunt. Some of the men caught
a nomber of fine fish, large Trout black Spots all over them.
the hunters returned in the afternoon had killed 2 Deer.

light Showers of rain. we packed up the most of the baggage
&c. halled the fish net across the river but caught none any
other way but with a hook & line. Capt. Lewis takes observations
here this being the upper fork of Jeffersons River &
the extream navigable part of the Missourie close under the
dividing ridge of the western Country.