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killed 4 fissents or prarie hens. we find wild or choke cherries along the branches. we delayed about 2 hours and a half then proceeded on down the valley. passed through a large bottom covred with handsom pitch pine timber from that a pleasant plain the remainder of this day. the afternoon pleasant but the snow still continues on the mountains as usal. came about blank miles this day and camped on a plain near a creek which runs in to the river about 2 miles below. our hunters all but one joined us had killed 3 deer and several ducks this day. course N.W. wind North all day. Tuesday 10th Sept. 1805. a clear pleasant morning not so cold as usal. as our road bad over a mountain to our left we cons? our captains conclude to stay here this day to take observations and for the hunters to kill meat to last us across the mountain and for our horses to rest &c. Several men and all the best hunters went out a hunting considerable of cotton timber on this creek the choke cherries abound on its bottoms. the natives has lately gathered an amence quantities of them here for food as they ?ooved up considerable of elder willow and servis bushes along the creek &c. tho the day is warm the snow does not melt on the mts. a short distance from us. considerable of pitch pine on the mountains but the snow makes them unclear like the middle of winter the valley and plains are pleasant. towards evening the hunters all came unclear returned to camp had killed 4 deer 2 ducks a fawn deer and several geese. towards evening one of the hunters went up the creek a short distance