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June 18th Monday Some raind last night, Sent out 6 Hunters 〈last〉 to day across the R: they Killed 5 Deer & Colte[r] [1] a Bear verry fat we continue to repare our ropes & make oars all day, heavy rain all the fore pt. of the day, the party Drying meat & greesing themselves, Several men with the Disentary, and two thirds of them with ulsers or Boils, Some with 8 or 10 of those Tumers Mesquetors verry bad we finish our Cords & oars this evening Men in Spirits [2]
Some rain last night, and Some hard Showers this morning which delay our work verry much, Send out Six hunters in the Prarie on the L S. they kill 5 Deer & Coltr a Bear, which verry large & fat, the party to wok at the oars, make rope, & jurk their meat all Day Dry our wet Sales &c. in the evening, The misquiter verry bad
Monday June 18th 1804. hard Rain this morning we remained here to finish the oars. Several men went out hunting, killed & brought in 4 Deer & one bear, they Inform us that their is handsome praries & very good land on the South Side of the River,
Monday June 18th Clouday 〈day N〉 with Rain and Thunder and wind 〈N. W〉 from the Est the Land at this Bottom is Good Land the timbr is Cotten wood ouer hunters Killed one Bar 5 Deer nothing worth Relating
Monday 18th. We remained here all day; and our hunters killed five deer and a bear. On the south side there is high land and a long prairie; on the north the land is level and well timbered, with ash, sugar tree, black walnut, buck-eye, cotton wood and some other timber. [3]
Monday 18th In the fore noon thunder and Litning Came On after a Rapid Rain Got fair and finish Roaps & And Oars— the hunters Killd. four deer and Colter one large Bare On the west Side of the River—
Monday June 18th We remain'd here this day, in the forenoon of which we had severe thunder & lightning after which succeeded a Violent rain, in the afternoon it cleared up, and all hands were employed in finishing the Oars & Ropes. toward evening our hunters came to us having killed four deer and one large Bear, on the South [4] side of the River.—
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