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Thursday 16th.. May 1805.

a heavy diew last night a clear pleasant morning. we
opened the goods &c. in order to get them dry before we
packed them up. Some of the men wounded a large panther
in this bottom, as he was coverring up a deer which he had
killed not long before. about 12 oClock Sergt. Ordway killed
a cabberree or antelope, a Specie of our goats. one of the
party killed another which was mired in the mud. about one
oC. we packed up our goods and loaded the officers perogue.
about 3 oClock P. M. we set off and proceeded on. passed
high broken hills & round knobs on each Side of the River and
narrow bottoms. passed a Small willow Island near the N. S.
we halted a fiew minutes at a bottom on N. S. and killed 2 buffaloe,
3 Deer and one buffaloe calf. Camped on the S. S. at a
bottom covered with timber. came 7 miles to day.