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26th.. Decr. Wednesday 1804—

a temperate day no Indians to day or yesterday. A man
from the NW. Company Came Down from the Gross Ventres
to get one of our interpeters to assist them in trade This
man informed that the Party of Gross Ventres who persued
the Assiniboins that Stold their horses, had all returned in
their useal way by Small parties, the last of the party bringing
8 horses which they Stole from a Camp of Assiniboins which
they found on Mouse River.