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American Fur Company had established a trading post. They never reached their destination and I presume they were killed by the Sioux Indians. We then began? our hunt, trapping the same streams that we had in the Fall. We travelled to the Yellowstone and up the twenty five yard river to the three forks of the Missouri and from there up the north fork of the Missouri. There we learned that the Smallpox had not killed all the Blackfeet but that there was a larger village full of them in advance of unclear We travelled cautiously on their time till we found they were only one day ahead of us