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Wednesday 6th.. Nov. 1805.

Several Showers of rain in the course of last night. the
guard had to attend to the canoes to keep them loose as the
tide Ebbs & flows abt. 3 feet pert.ular. a cloudy wet morning.
we Set out eairly and proceeded on. Shortly passed a Small
village on Lard. Side. Some Indians came out in the River to
us with their canoes. we bought Some fresh fish from them,
and bought Some fine roots from a canoe which was going
down the R. with a load trading. at noon we halted to dine
at a large bottom which was covd. with cotton timber on the
S. Side. Several hunters went out abt. one hour and the under
brush So thick that they could not go any distance back. we
proceeded on. passed high clifts on L. S. abt. 100 feet from
the S[urface of ] the water. the hills on each Side are [covered
with] different kinds of pine.