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24th.. December Monday 1804—

Several Chiefs and numbers of Men Womin and Children
at the fort to Day, Some for trade, the most as lookers on,
we gave a fellet of Sheep Skin (which we brought for Spunging)
to 3 Chiefs one to each of 2 inches wide, [on] which they
lay Great value (priseing those felets equal to a fine horse), a
fine Day we finished the pickengen (picketing) around our
works.