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243 we delayed until after breakfast. one hunter out on handsom spring run on L.Side on which is a fiew cotton a great nomber of fine berrys which is called servis berrys our intr. wife gathered a ple full & gave them to the party at noon where we halted at a grove of cotton trees on L.S. our hunter who went out this morning killed a verry large buck. two of our hunters stayed last night & have not returned yet we name this place Servis valley from the abundance of these berrys along under the hills &c the 2 hunters joined us here & informed us that the river forks in about 5 miles a strait course by land & they think we can go no further than the forks with the crafts 2 hunters sent on to the forks to kill meat. we proceeded on over verry shallow & swift water passed up a verry bad rockey rapid where we had to waid up to our middle & hale the canoes over the rapids. saw several fine springs & a run above the bad rapid passed high clifts of rocks and high hills? on each side. found pleanty of currents. the water not so bad above the rapid came miles this day and? camped on a narrow bottom on L.Side. no timber we could scarsely find any but small willow to boil our unclear