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and one of the hunters killed a large buffaloe. Thursday 23rd May 1805 a cold frosty morning, the standing water was froze over. we set off at sun rise and proceeded on one one of the hunters who went on some distance & stayed out all joined us had killed 5 deer we passed bottoms killed deer in ? bottoms passed pitch pine hills on each side of the river. passed several small islands in the river. about 2 oc. p.m. we halted and made fire to dine at a timbered bottom on N.S. one of the hunters took his rifle & bullette pouch on shore the fire broke out into the woods and burned up his shot pouch powder horn & the stalk of his rifle. about 3 oc we proceeded on passed pine hills as usal. toward evening, we killed a brown bear in the river but he sank in under a large drift of wood so that we could not get it. we came 28 miles to day and camped at a timbered bottom on the N.S. Some of the party discovered high mountains to the west of us a long distance? or illegible their eyes could illegible