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eight deer 4 elk one woolf and remained here all the afternoon & camped for the night 2 men stayed out hunting beaver all night. we came only 6 miles this morning. Thesday 21st 1805 a clear pleasant morning. the 2 men returned who stayed out all night had caught one beaver & killed a deer. they swam across the Mussel Shell River before sunrise soon after we set off another beaver was caught we proceeded on passed timbred bottoms & hilly land on each side. but the river? hills are not so high as they were for some distance below. Some of the party yesterday discovered a high range of mountains to the west a long distance off we saw some old Indian camps in a timbred bottom on the South Shore one of the hunters killed an elk the wind rose so high from