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Sunday 13th Oct. 1805. a rainy wet morning. we delayed untill about 10 oclock am then took 2 of the canoes at a time down the rapids all the men which could not swim we sent by land and carried some rifles & instruments &c. we got safe below the rapids by 12 oclock. dined on sammon and proceeded on over several more rapids the wind hard a head cleard off about 2 oc. pm. we saw several old camps where the natives fish in the spring but no timber except what they raft down a long distance and they scaffel it up verry carefully. towards evening we came to a verry rockey place in the river & rapid the river all confined in a narrow channel only about 150 yds wide for about 2 mile and ran as unclear as a mill tale the canoes ran down the channel swifter than any horse could run. a great fishery below these rapids. Saw 2 Indians swim their horses across the river to the N.S. and follow down the river they have to ride fast to keep up with us for the current mostly rapid. the clifts & hills high plains & barron continues on each side of the river as usal. we came blank miles this day and camped on the stard. side passed a creek on the lar. side this afternoon Sunday 14th Oct. 1805. a clear cold morning the wind high unclear head & west