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The Musquetors being So excessively tormenting that the party was all on board and we Set out at day light and proceeded on very well. here the river is bordered on both [sides?] with timber &c becoms much narrower more Crooked and the Current more rapid and Crouded with Snags or Sawyers than it is above, and continus So all day. We did not meet with McClellen as we expected at the Creek. [1] the report of the guns which was heard must have been the Mahars who most probably have just arrived at their village from hunting the buffalow. this is a Season they usialy return to their village to Secure their Crops of Corn Beens punkins &c &c. proceeded on very well passd. the blue Stone bluff [2] at 3 P. M here the river leaves the high lands and meanders through a low rich bottom. Encamped on the S W Side on a Sand bar at a cut off a little below our Encampment of the 9th of August 1804. [3] haveing made 73 Miles to day— Capt. Lewis still in a Convelesent State. We Saw no game on the Shores to day worth killig only Such as pelicans Geese ducks, Eagles and Hawks &c.—
Friday 5th Sept. 1806. a fair morning. we were routed at day light by the Musquetoes. we Set out and procd. on verry well without making any delay. we having made 75 miles this day and Camped on a Sand beach to git as much out of the Musquetoes as possable.—
Friday 5th This was a fine morning, and we early embarked, and went on very well, till night, when we encamped on a sand-bar, where the musketoes were very troublesome.
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