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Thursday 10th Oct. 1805. a fair morning our 2 Indians who came with us from the Snake nation left us yesterday. we set out eairly and proceeded on down Several bad rapids took in some water in the canoes. passed several Indian fishing camps where we bought some sammon from them they have a nomber of small canoes along the shore. about 11 oclock we came to a verry bad rockey rapid where we halted and took one canoe over at a time one of the canoes ran fast on a rock stove a hole in hir side with some difficutly we got hir to shore unloaded and repaired hir some of the natives caught some of our oars and poles which was washed away in the rapids we bought some more sammon & a dog or two about 2 oclock we proceeded on passed several more fishing camps. passed down some verry bad rapids which were shallow. we had to wade in several rapids to hale the canoes over about 5 oclock pm we arived at the forks of the Columbian River we proceeded on down it a short distance and the wind blew so high from the west that we camped on the starbord side had come 20 miles this day & mostly a west course a nomber of fishing camps along the shores about the forks this is a large river unclear a large body of water & is about 400 yards wide and of a greenish coulour. no timber barron & broken praries on each side Friday 11th Oct. 1805. a fair morning. we set out eairly two more Indians with a small canoe accompny us we proceeded on passed over some rapids water but the current mostly gentle about 8 oclock we came to a fishing camp & party of Indians where we bought considerable quantity of sammon and 8 or 10 fat dogs to eat. some dryed haws &c. Saw among them some peice of fish net which they must have came from white people a tea kittle made of copper seen also.