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Saturday 22nnd June 1805. a fair pleasant morning, the wind as usal. the party all raised up eairly. Capt. Lewis and Clark with all the party except 3 set out with a waggons baggage to take the canoe & loading which was halled on the hill yesterday up to the upper end of the partage, where we shall form a camp. Capt. Lewis & 3 or 4 men carried their baggage in order to stay up their in order to git the Iron boat in readiness. the buffalow around the lower camp verry thick Some gangs swam the river Capt Clarks Servant York killed one which was verry fat, Capt Clark informed us that he saw 40 or 50 swimming the river abo{{ve?]] the falls and some went down over them which he could not see them rise any more a nomber got to shore half? drowned, in this way great numbers of those animals are lost and acounts for so many as we saw lying on the shores below the falls ever since we came from the Mandans & unclear but a vast deal pleantier? near them 194