[Clark, first draft:]
Septr. 27th. Thursday 1805.
Set all the men able to work abt. building canoes, Colter
returned and found one horse & the canister of shot left in
the mountains he also killed a Deer ½ of which he brought
hot day men sick
27th Septr. (Friday) 1805
All the men able to work comen[c]ed building 5 Canoes,
Several taken Sick at work, our hunters returned Sick without
meet. J. Colter returned he found only one of the lost horses,
on his way killed a Deer, half of which he gave the Indians
the other proved nourishing to the Sick The day verry hot,
we purchase fresh Salmon of them Several Indians come up
the river from a Camp Some distance below (Capt Lewis
very sick nearly all the men sick. our Shoshonee Indian Guide
employed himself makeing flint points for his arrows)
