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Tuesday 11th June 1805. a clear pleasant morning. about 8 oclock Capt. Lewis George Dalwyer? G. Gibson Jo. Fields & Silas Goodrich set out for the South snowey mountain. we put in the carsh or hole 1 keg of powder 1 bar led 1 keg flour 1 keg pork 2 kegs parched meal the bellowses & tools. augur plains saw & some tin cups a dutch oven a corn ? mill. packs? of beaver, bear skins horns buffaloe robes &c the blacksmiths compleated repairing the fire arms. the carsh or hole on the high land dug deeper and compleated burrying the heavey articles &c we got in readiness to ascend the South fork , we have caught more small fish Since we lay here than we made use of -- and one kind of Small flat Scale fish that we never Saw the kind before.-- Wednesday 12th June 1805, a clear pleasant morning. we burryed 3 traps which was forgot yesterday and Set out about 7 oclock from Camp on point ? 2508 1/4 miles from mouth? and proceeded on up the South fork which we will call the Missourie R. passed a great nomber (5 or 6 at least by noon) of Islands before we had got out of cite of the point which was covered with cotton timber one of the party caught a beaver an one of them in a trap which he set last night, passed high black & yallow bluffs on each Side & handsom smooth plains on each side. Saw elk antelopes & geese &c found some penerial? the first we Saw on the river. the current verry rapid. 184