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Friday 10th May 1805. clear and cold we set of about sunrise and? proceeded on. the wind rose from the N.W. came about 4 miles and halted for the wind to abate at a bottom covred with timber on the S.S. where the beaver had cut down considerable of a peice of small timber. Several of the party went out to hunt the wind rose high Some Squawls of rain one of the men caught a number of fish, the hunters killed 1? fat buffaloe 4 beaver and 3 Deer. Some of them saw some moose deer which was much larger than the common deer. our officers inspected our arms &c camped here for the night. Saturday 11th May 1805 a clear cold morning, a white frost last night. Some of the party caught 2 beaver last night we set off eairly and proceeded on passed black bluffs on the S.S. and hills on each side partly covred with low ceider? we saw large gangs of buffaloe in the bottoms on each side of the River. towards evening one of the party wounded a brown bair and was chased by it to the perogues. Several hunters went to his assistance and killed it it was nearly of the same description as the other we killed several 140