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Weather, December 1804 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • The Buffaloe appear    Capt Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) with 15 men Kill 14 [9] went hunting with a party of fifteen men    killed 10 Buffaloe and 1 deer    staid out all night 14th Capt.
  • Weather, December 1804
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, May 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • do. 14th white frost this morning 15th slight shower 17th the Gees have their young; the Elk begin to produce their young, the Antelope and deer as yet have not.—    the small species of Goatsucker or whiperwill begin to cry—    the blackbirds both small and large have appeared.   
  • May 31, 1805
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
June 8, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • on our way to camp we had killed 4 deer and two Antelopes; the skins of which as well as those we killed while on the rout we brought with us.
  • June 8, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, June 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) Discover the falls (Missouri River, Great Falls of the) & Send back Joe Fields (Field, Joseph) to inform me 15th The deer now begin to bring forth their young    the young Mag- pies begin to fly.
  • Weather, June 1805
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
September 9, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • just as we were seting out Drewyer (Drouillard, George) arrived with two deer.    we continued our rout down the valley about 4 miles and crossed the river; it is hear a handsome stream about 100 yards wide and affords a considerable quantity of very clear water, the banks are low and it's bed entirely gravel.   
  • September 9, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
November 4, 1805 - Clark, William
  • it is emensely high and covered with Snow, riseing in a kind of Cone perhaps the highest pinecal from the common leavel in america passed a village of 4 hs. on the Stard Side at 2 mils, one at 3 mls. One deer 2 Ducks & Brant killed N. 28° W.   3 miles to a Stard bend & campd. near a village on the Std.
  • November 4, 1805
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  • Clark, William
May 9, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • M. our hunters joined us Drewyer (Drouillard, George) killed a deer but lost it in the river.    a few pheasants was the produce of the hunt.   
  • May 9, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 27, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Drewyer (Drouillard, George) , Labiech (Labiche, François) & Crusat (Cruzatte, Pierre) return at 4 P. M. with 5 Deer which they had killed at Some distance up Collin's Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) on this Side, that Stream Still continue So high that they could not pass it.— Shabono's child (Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste) is much better to day; tho' the Swelling on the Side of his neck I believe will termonate in an ugly imposthume a little below the ear.
  • May 27, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Part 1: Affluents of the Missouri River - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Dry (Deer, Short Leg) Creek
  • Dry (Deer, Short Leg) Creek
  • Winter 1804-1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 20, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Sent out the hunters    they killed nothing    Saw Some Signs of deer. Clark (Clark, William) reached the forks of Lolo (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) and Eldorado creeks (Eldorado Creek) , crossed the former and went down it.
  • September 20, 1805
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  • Clark, William
March 19, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Their Robes are made most commonly of the Skins of a Small animal which I have Supposed was the brown mungo, tho' they have also a number of the Skins of the tiger Cat, Some of those of the Elk which are used principally on their war excursions, others of the Skins of Deer, panthor, Bear, and the Speckle Loon, and blankets wove with the fingers of the wool of the native Sheep.   
  • March 19, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 9, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • after halting this evening I took a turn with my gun in order to kill a deer, but was unsuccessful. I saw much fresh sign.    the fir has been lately injured by a fire near this place and many of them have discharged considerable quantities of rozin.   
  • April 9, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • (Rocky Mountains) Labuish (Labiche, François) returned this evening having killed two deer I sent and had them brought in.    this evening Capt. C. (Clark, William) informed me by some of the men whom he sent over that that he had obtained no horses as yet of the natives.   
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 7, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    we suped this evening as we had dined on horse-beef.    we saw several deer this evening and a great number of the tracks of these animals we determined to remain here untill noon tomorrow in order to obtain some venison and accordingly gave orders to the hunters to turn out early in the morning.
  • May 7, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 11, 1806 - Clark, William
  • in the evening all our hunters turned out in different directions with a view to find some probable Spot of killing deer and were directed to lay out all night and hunt in the morning early.
  • June 11, 1806
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  • Clark, William
September 26, 1804 - Clark, William
  • eat little of dog    pemn & pote [potato] good]    we Smoked for an hour [NB: till] Dark & all was Cleared away    a large fire made in the Center, about 10 misitions playing on tamberins [NB: made of hoops & skin stretched].    long sticks with Deer & Goats Hoofs tied So as to make a gingling noise and many others of a Similer kind, those men began to Sing, & Beet on the Tamboren, the women Came foward highly Deckerated in theire way, with the Scalps and Trofies of war of ther father Husbands Brothers or near Connection & proceeded to Dance the war Dance which they done with Great Chearfullness untill 12 oClock when we informed the Cheifs that they [NB: must be] were fatigued [NB: amusing us] &c.
  • September 26, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 12, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the bulb grows single, is of an oval form, white, and about the size of a small bullet; the leaf resem[bles] that of the shive, and the hunters returned this eving with one deer only.    the country about the mouth of this river had been recently hunted by the Minetares (Hidatsa Indians) , and the little game which they had not killed and frightened away, was so extreemly shy that the hunters could not get in shoot of them.
  • April 12, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 3, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we saw vast quantities of Buffaloe, Elk, deer principally of the long tale kind, Antelope or goats, beaver, geese, ducks, brant and some swan.   
  • May 3, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 14, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • saw immence herds of buffaloe today also Elk deer wolves and Antelopes.    passed three large creeks one on the Stard. and two others on the Lard. side, neither of which had any runing water.
  • May 14, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 19, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the latter part of the evening their rout lay over a hilly and mountanous country covered with the sharp fragments of flint which cut and bruised their feet excessively; nor wer the prickly pear of the leveler part of the rout much less painfull; they have now become so abundant in the open uplands that it is impossible to avoid them and their thorns are so keen and stif that they pearce a double thickness of dressed deers skin with ease. Capt. C. (Clark, William) informed me that he extracted 17 of these bryers from his feet this evening after he encamped by the light of the fire.
  • July 19, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 27, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    Drewyer (Drouillard, George) , Cruzatte (Cruzatte, Pierre) , and Labuish (Labiche, François) returned at 4 P. M. with five deer which they had killed at some distance up Collins's Creek (Lolo (Collins's) Creek (Idaho)) on this side; that stream still continues so high that they could not pass it.—    Charbono's son (Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste) is much better today, tho' the swelling on the side of his neck I believe will terminate in an ugly imposthume a little below the ear.   
  • May 27, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 22, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I now have lost all hope of the waters of this river ever extending to N Latitude 50° though I still hope and think it more than probable that both white earth river (Little Muddy (White Earth) River) and milk river (Milk (Ah-mâh-tâh ru-shush-sher, River Which Scolds at All Others) River) extend as far north as latd. 50°—    we have seen but few buffaloe today no deer and very few Antelopes; gam of every discription is extreemly wild which induces me to beleive that the indians are now, or have been lately in this neighbourhood.   
  • July 22, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, July 1806 - Clark, William
  • E. 30th Great number of Swallows, they have their young. Killed 1s black tail deer.    young gees beginning to fly    a Slight Shower of rain accompanied with thunder and lightning.
  • Weather, July 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 2, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Shields (Shields, John) killed a Deer this morning dureing the time we were at Brackfast.    we were very near being detained by the Buffalow today which were Crossing the river we got through the line between 2 gangues.
  • August 2, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 30, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Joseph) had killed 3 black tail or mule deer.    we then Set out, as I wished to See what those Indians on the hill would act.   
  • August 30, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Soon everyone, including York (who, as a slave, was not legally entitled to carry a gun) was firing away at the massive beasts, killing them on the plains and river terraces, on the islands and even in the water. Big, black-tailed deer became common. Lewis named them mule deer because of the size of their ears.
  • The other misnamed animal was smaller than a deer, with a light brown back, white underparts, white throat stripes, and a white rump.
  • The exhilaration arising from those infinite miles was heightened by the "immense herds of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelopes we saw in every direction." Surely they would get what they wanted.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Soon everyone, including York (who, as a slave, was not legally entitled to carry a gun) was firing away at the massive beasts, killing them on the plains and river terraces, on the islands and even in the water. Big, black-tailed deer became common. Lewis named them mule deer because of the size of their ears.
  • The other misnamed animal was smaller than a deer, with a light brown back, white underparts, white throat stripes, and a white rump.
  • The exhilaration arising from those infinite miles was heightened by the "immense herds of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelopes we saw in every direction." Surely they would get what they wanted.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
July 18, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we killed one Elk this morning and found part of the flesh and the skin of a deer this evening which had been kiled and left by Capt. Clark (Clark, William) .   
  • July 18, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 31, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    we saw one bighorn today as a few antelopes and deer.— Courses and distances of July 31st 1805.
  • July 31, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 17, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the idea which the indians mean to convey by this appellation is something that eminates from or acts immediately by the influence or power of the great sperit; or that in which the power of god is manifest by it's incomprehensible power of action.    our hunters killed 4 deer and an Antelope this evening of which we also gave the Indians a good proportion.   
  • August 17, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
March 19, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they sometimes wear a hat which has already been discribed. this robe is made most commonly of the skins of a small animal which I have supposed was the brown mungo, tho' they have also a number, of the skins of the tiger cat, some of those of the Elk which are used principally on their war excursions, others of the skins of the deer panther and bear and a blanket wove with the fingers of the wool of the native sheep. a mat is sometimes temperarily thrown over the sholders to protect them from rain.   
  • March 19, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 14, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) and the three hunters    they brought with them 4 deer which Drewyer (Drouillard, George) had killed yesterday.    we took breakfast and departed.   
  • April 14, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 1, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Fields (Field, Joseph) and Shannon (Shannon, George) landed on an Ponceras Island (Pawnee (Ponceras) Island) to try to kill Some deer which was Seen on the beech and the 〈remainder of the〉 Canoes all passed them at 9 A.
  • September 1, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • He detected the difference in the habitats preferred by mule deer and white-tailed deer. He marveled at the way wolves would cut one antelope out of a herd and then spell each other as they ran the fleet-footed prey to exhaustion.
  • The seventeen men who stayed in camp under Sergeant Ordway would hunt, both for food and for deer and elk hides the Corps could sew into clothing and use for covering the iron boat frame.
  • Turning around the next day, the little party made a forced march back to the junction, carrying with them, as raw material for more clothing, the hides of seven deer they killed along the way. Lewis's trip was more arduous. At times thirst and wind-whipped rain drove his group off the plains into the bottom of the north fork.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
April 26, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I observe that the Antelope, Buffaloe Elk and deer feed on this herb; the willow of the sandbars also furnish a favorite winter food to these anamals as well as the growse, the porcupine, hare, and rabbit.   
  • April 26, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Part 2: Miscellany - Clark, William
  • Latd. 46 48 26 at a road which passes from the plains East of the Mountains near the falls of Missouri (Missouri River, Great Falls of the) across those Mountains to the plains of Columbia (Great Columbian Plain) West of those mountains (and the rout proposed to Carry on the Trade) here Commences the rugid part of those Emenc Mountains, after resting a few Days on Clarks River (Clark Fork (Clark's, East Fork Clark's, Flathead) River) at this Road where we found a fiew deer, we proceded on over those emenc rugid Mountains of Snow (in which the party were Compelled to live on horse flesh) to the Forks Kooskooske (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) 183 miles 140 miles of which distance was over emenc Mountains 60 ms. of Snow here Canoes were built & decended the Kooskooske (Clearwater (Flathead, Kooskooskee) River) 〈73〉 to Lewis's river (Lewis (Cahwahnakiooks) River) from the South down that river to the main Columbia (Columbia River) from the N. in Latd. 46° 15' 13" and down the Columbia (Columbia River) to its enterance in Lat. 46 19 11 N. and Longt. 124° 57' W. of Greenwich being 640 miles by Water and nearly a West Course.
  • Postexpedition 1806
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  • Clark, William
October 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Their 〈Dress are as follows viz〉 garments Conists of a short Shirt of leather and a roabe of the Skins of Deer or the Antilope but fiew of them ware Shirts all have Short robes.
  • October 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
August 19, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • .—    The hunters returned this evening with two deer.    from what has 〈already〉 been said of the Shoshones (Shoshone Indians) it will be readily perceived that they live in a wretched stait of poverty.   
  • August 19, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Deerskins were exchanged for three fat dogs, and the hunters added more deer to the larder. The area was populous. Each day more outsiders arrived to share the coming salmon run with the local Indians.
  • There the men, armed only with bows and arrows and disguised with antlers and buckskin over their heads and shoulders, searched for deer among the thin stands of ponderosa pines. While that was going on, the women dug and pounded into meal a root new to the captains: cowish, or cous.
  • Although the hunters had killed several deer and bear during the first days there, game had become increasingly difficult to find.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
April 2, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The men who went in question of the Elk and Deer which were killed yesterday returned at 8 A. M. this morning.   
  • April 2, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • There is no published mammal list, but the white-tailed jackrabbit, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, black-tailed prairie dog, bushy-tailed woodrat, coyote, mule deer, and pronghorn all occur in this general area, to mention some of the regional mammals discovered by Lewis and Clark.
  • N.D.
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  • Paul A. Johnsgard
July 25, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Shields (Shields, John) killed two fat deer and after a delay of one hour and a half we again proceeded on.   
  • July 25, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • He had a good day with his gun—one fat bear and two deer, which he left where they fell. Drouillard would pick them up with his packhorse and take them to the river, skin them, and hang the carcasses where the boatmen would find them.
  • During the moonlit night, Clark awoke and saw a huge snake rising like a small Loch Ness monster out of the water toward one of the hanging deer. It was a doe, its udder tight with milk. Its orphaned fawn was probably wandering lost somewhere in the hills—unfortunate, but there were forty-six men on the boats to be fed.
  • Joseph Field killed a new animal, a badger, and then, while out hunting deer with his brother, Reuben, got lost, settled down for the night in a rough bivouac—and awoke to find that the expedition's two horses, essential for packing meat, had strayed.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • There were no great, clotted herds of buffalo, elk, deer, or antelope. Food was limited to salmon, most of it dried, and to roots, and a slowly increasing number of dogs, all purchased from the stream-side Indians with articles reluctantly drawn from the expedition's shrinking supply of trade goods.
  • Reuben's brother, Joe, killed a hitherto unknown species of black-tailed deer; it provided, on the morning of the 19th, "a Sumptious brackfest of Venison which was roasted on Stiks exposed to the fire."
  • Meadows broke the forests there; deer would probably abound and the climate would be mild. So there was talk.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • His eye for detail was sharp, whether he was discussing the form of a leaf, the length of a bird's beak, or the way a mule deer ran. He was attentive to Indian culture—their plank houses and hats of bark and bear grass, their scanty clothing, their foods, domestic utensils, funeral customs, and, in particular, their canoes.
  • (Ordway raises the count for the period to 150 elk and several deer.) From those hides they had made 338 pairs of moccasins and an unspecified number of leather shirts and pants.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
June 3, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we agreed to go up those rivers one day and a halfs march or further if it should appear necessary to satisfy us more fully of the point in question. the hunters killed 2 Buffaloe, 6 Elk and 4 deer today.    the evening proved cloudy.    we took a drink of grog this evening and gave the men a dram, and made all matters ready for an early departure in the morning.
  • June 3, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 10, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The men expose those parts which are generally kept from few [X: view] by other nations but the women are more perticular than any other nation which I have passed in Screting the parts Their amusements appear but fiew as their Situation requires the utmost exertion to prcure food they are generally employed in that pursute, all the Summer & fall fishing for the Salmon, the winter hunting the deer on Snow Shoes in the plains and takeing care of ther emence numbers of horses, & in the Spring cross the mountains to the Missouri (Missouri River) to get Buffalow robes and meet &c. at which 〈it〉 time they frequent meet with their enemies & lose their horses & maney of ther people Ther disorders are but fiew and those fiew of a Scofelous nature. they make great use of Swetting.
  • October 10, 1805
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  • Clark, William
August 12, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Sent out Shields (Shields, John) & Labiech (Labiche, François) to hunt deer in the bottom, at 2 〈a〉 P m. Shannon (Shannon, George) and gibson (Gibson, George) arived having found the tomahawk at our camp they killed 3 Elk &c.   
  • August 12, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • The poor meat picked up during the January hunts, most of it lean elk fortified by an occasional thin deer, did little to replenish the Corps's larder. Fortunately the Indians' desire for ironware remained insatiable.
  • After they had bagged thirty-six deer and fourteen elk they hitched the gray mare to a sleigh loaded with six hundred pounds of meat.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender

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