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the head is three feet 5 inches, do the neck 3 feet 11 inches do the breast 5? feet 10 1/2 inches, also round the middle of the arm one foot 11 inches. the length from the nose to the c?mity? of the hind? toe is 8 feet 7 1/2 inches. the length of tallons 4 feet ? inches his teeth or tuskes were all most worn out the toe nales ware worn short. when we got him to shore we halted for the night on the N.S. dressed the brown bair found a fish in him which he had caught to eat. we rendered out about 6 gallons of greese and did not render only a part. of it he war not fat but reckoned to be about 600 weight as he was killed. one of the hunters went out and killed an elk . I saw another bair nearby of the same direction? Came 16 miles this day. Monday 6th Mary 1805. clear pleasant and warm. The wind from the east we sailed on very well, caught two beaver last night, Saw a brown bair swim the River before us. about 2 oc. we halted to dine at a handsom bottom covered with timber on the N.S. Capt. Clark killed an Elk, a light sprinkling of rain. but did not last long. passed a bluff on S.S. and some hills also, high plains & bottoms on the N. Side and on the S.S. came about 27 miles in all this day. and camped in a bottom of timber on the S.Side-- the bottom is all trod of by the game. and different paths in all directions. &C ?