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to day killed 2 elk and 2 deer & one otter?. we came about 26 miles by water to day. and camped on the N. Side -- July 16th Tuesday 1805. a clear pleasant morning Sergt. Ordway went about 2 miles back for an axe which was? forgot last evening. we proceeded on verry well the current begin to git swifter we passed a high round hill a short distance from the river which at a distance look like a large fortifycation so we named it Fort Mountain lying on N.S. of the river we passed a large creek on S. Side 100 yd. wide. passed several Isld covered with timber also bottoms on each side covered with cotton timber &c Saw fresh Indian sign. large camps back of several bottoms the hunters killed 2 buffalow we saw verry large gangs in the plains under the rockey mountain which we are now approaching