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Monday 17th Sept. 1804 Capt Lewis and Several more of the party went out a hunting they came in had killed 13 common deer 2 black tailed deer 3? goat & 3 buffaloes the goats in this is different from the goats in the States They have much longer ears and courser hair Drewyer caught i beaver killed a prarie wolf. these wolves are larger than a fox

Tuesday 18th Sept we set off from camp unclear as clear day. passed timbered land on the S.S. hills and praries on the L.S. passed an Island a great number of sand bars. Capt. Lewis in his? yesterdays hunt killed a bird not common in the States a bird of pray resembling the Europian maypy? Capt Clark & Drewyer & R Fields killed 11 deer and one