Catfish
which is White Camp—
26th. of July Thursday 1804—
the wind
Blustering and hard from the South all day which
blowed the clouds of Sand
in Such a manner that I could not
complete my pan [plan] in the tent, the Boat roled in Such
a manner that
I could do nothing in that, & was Compessed
[compelled] to go to the
woods and combat with the Musquetors,
I opened the Tumer of a man on the left breast,
which discharged half a point [pint].
five Beaver Cough[t] near the
Camp the flesh of which we
made use of. This evening we found verry
pleasant. only
one Deer killed to day. The countrey back from Camp on
the S. S. is a bottom of about five mile wide, one half the
distance
wood & the bals, plain high & Dry. The opposit
Side a high Hill about 170 foot rock foundation Covd.
with
timber, back & below is a Plain.
