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Wednesday 2nd.. Oct. 1805.

a fair morning. two men Sent up to the villages with Six
of our horses and Some marchandize to trade for Sammon and
their kind of bread &c. we continued our work as usal at the
canoes. Some hunters out in the hills a hunting. towards
evening the hunters returned had killed nothing but one
prarie wolf, which we eat. the party are So weak working
without any kind of meat, that we concluded to kill a horse
and accordingly we did kill a horse which was in tollarable
order, and we eat the meat with good Stomacks as iver we did
fat beef in the States. we bought a fiew fresh Sammon &
Some root bread from the natives &c.