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[Clark, first draft:]

October 1st.. 1805 Tuesday.

a cool morning wind from the N.E. I examine & Dry all
our article clothes & nothing to eat except Dried fish verry bad
diet Capt Lewis getting much better than for several days past
Several Indians visit us from the different villages below and on
the main fork, S. nothing killed


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October 1st.. Monday (Tuesday) 1805

A cool Morning wind from the East had Examined and
dried all our Clothes and other articles, and laid out a Small
assortment of such articles as those Indians were fond of to
trade with them for Some provisions (they are remarkably
fond of Beeds) nothin to eate except a little dried fish which
they men complain of as working of them as (as much as) a
dost of Salts. Capt Lewis getting much better. Several
Indians visit us from the different tribes below. Some from
the main South fork. our hunters killed nothing to day
worm evening