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FRIDAY, June 29th, 1855.

A cool morning, fine is very comfortable - Started early but did not get a good distance before we stopped to wood and sent the yawl ahead to look out the channels. - Doct Hayden came on board at Fort Pierre, he is a young man who has been in this country for 2 years searching for curiosities in the way of birds, bugs, petrifactions +c. etc. - This country abounds in prickly pear - so that is almost impossible for a person unaccustomed to them to travel without getting the thorn in his foot - A cold day with an occasional sprinkle of rain - -