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May 15th. Wednesday 1805

Our medisons, Instruments, merchandize, clothes provisions
&c. &c. which was nearly all wet we had put out to air and dry,
the day being cloudy & rainey those articles dried but little to
day. our hunters killed several deer &c. and saw three Bear
one of which they wounded &c.

We see Buffalow on the banks dead, others floating down
dead, and others mired every day, those buffalow either
drown in swiming the river or brake thro' the ice