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a curious cut off Tuesday 30th July 1805. a clear pleasant morning. we loaded the canoes eairly and set out about 9 oclock and proceeded on. Capt. Lewis and several men walked on shore. we passed large bottoms of cotton timber the river crooked rapid and full of islands the under bushes thick the currents abound. the beaver pleanty a nomber of beaver dams behind the islands &c we dined at the upper end of the bottoms near close by a clear open prarie or plain at this place our Intrepters wife was taken prisoner 4 years ago by a war party of the gros vountour they took hir as she was attempting to make hir ascape by crossing a shole place of the river but was taken in the middle of it. 2 or 3 Indians killed at the same time on shore the rest of the Snakes made their ascape the day warm and verry pleasant. one of the hunters killed a deer. we proceeded on the current verry swift & rapids common. passed beautiful large plains on L.S. and high land on the S. side. we came 13 1/2 miles this day and camped on the stardside Capt Lewis did not join us this evening. these bottoms are low? & many beaver dams which causes pond &c