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Saturday 5th.. Oct. 1805.

a fair cool frosty morning. the two men who had been at
the villages trading, returned late last night, with their horses
loaded with the root bread and a Small quantity of Sammon, a
fiew Elk Skins dressed & otter Skins for caps &c. we continue
on finishing off the canoes. got up our horses and
cropped their fore mane, and branded them with a Sturrip
Iron on the near fore Shoulder, So that we may know them
again at our return. a Chief who we Intended leaveing our
horses with has engaged to go on with us & leaves the horses
in care of his two Sons. 38 in nomber of the horses which we
delivered up in their care towards evening we put two of the
canoes which was finished in to the River. (the distance over
the mountn.. is estimated to be 160 odd miles from where we
left Flatt head River, to this place.