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9th. February Saturday 1805.

The morning fair and pleasent, wind from S.E. visited by
Mr. McKinzey one of the N.W. Company's clerks. this evening
a man by the name of Howard whom I had given permission
to go [to] the Mandane vilage returned after the gate was
shut and reather than call to the guard to have it opened
scaled the works an indian who was looking on shortly after


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followed his example. I convinced the Indian of the impropryety
of his conduct, and explained to him the risk he had
run of being severely treated, the fellow appeared much
allarmed, I gave him a small piece of tobacco and sent him
away Howard I had comitted to the care of the guard with a
determineation to have him tryed by a Court-martial for this
offence. this man is an old soldier which still hightens this
offince.