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then intends comming on board. we proceeded on over a nomber of bad rapids where the canoes run fast and oblidged us to git out in the cold water and hale them off. Some places the water is deep & current gentle for some distance but the shole rapids are common & rockey. the river hills make close to the river on each side some clifts of rocks a fiew scattering pine trees on the hills but they are mostly barron broken & covred over with grass. some small cotton wood along the shores. some of the rapids which are deep enofe to run clear are so bad that we take water over the canoes by the waves. strucke some large rocks & slide off? without injury came 21 miles and camped on stard. side the officers canoe leaks so that they changes so that they changes their baggage into an other canoe for fear of gitting the instruments &c. wet. the evening cloudy. one man taken sick with the collick we passed some old Indian camps this afternoon & a small canoe on shore Tuesday 8th Oct. 1805. a fair day. we delayed loading &c. burryed a canister of powder the North? side of a broken toped tree about 9 oclock we set out and proceeded on down the river Saw some Indian horses on the side of the hills passed over several bad rapids. took some water in the canoes by the waves dashing over the sides. the current rapid the most part of the way some places deep. passed clifts of rockes and bare hills on each side. about 12 oclock we came to some Indian camps on the