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all the men that could be spared from camp set out for to go down to the falls a hunting. I remained in camp making leather cloaths &c the rest of the men at camp was employed in making coal? and tallow and unclear was mixed and payed over the leather on the iron boat &c in the afternoon the hunters returned from the falls and plains had killed several buffalow, 1 antelope, and a yallow fox also 2 rattle snakes &c Capt. Clark measured the width of the river at the great Spring and middle falls &c the hunter from over the river and had killed one buck deer and a buck antelope or goat kind &c Some thunder and light sprinkling of rain &c

July 9th Tuesday 1805: a beautiful morning, the Island near our bank is covered with black birds. the musquitoes verry troublesome. we put the iron boat in to the watercoated? some of the canoes and get in readiness to depart from this place, in the afternoon we loaded the 6 canoes but did not load the iron boat for the leaked cut off.