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goods and loaded the officers perogue about 3 oclock pm. we set? off and proceeded on. passed high broken hills & round knolls on each side of the river and narrow bottoms passed small willow ? near the N.S. we halted a few minutes at a bottom on S.S. and killed 2 buffaloe, 3 deer and one buffaloe calf Camped on the S.S. at a bottom covered with timber Came 7 miles to day Friday 17th May 1805 clear pleasant morning, we set off eairly and proceeded on. passed high broken whiteish couloured hills which wash by rain, and make close to the river on each side the bottoms high and narrow. Some spots of pitch pine on and between the hills on each side, but the cottonwood gets the asser? we saw large gangs of elk, but a few? buffaloe, saw a nomber of geese and goslings on the ? about 2 oc we halted to dine at a small bottom on S.S. where their was some old Indians camps. about 3 oc we proceeded on toward evening we killed a brown bear the first femal that we killed. we passed a creek on the S.S. & verry high rough naked hills on each side all this day. we came 20 1/4 miles and camped on a narrow? plain on the South Side killed 2 elk 148