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177 illegible buffaloe ? wind high from the N.W. clouded up. the current was not so Swift yesterday & to day as it has been Some time past. So get? along verry well with the towing lines, a small sprinkling of rain about 2 oc. we proceeded on passed Several Islands of cotton wood bluffs & high land towards evening the hunters killed a yallow bear in a bottom of cotton wood on S.S. we Came 18 miles & Camped at a fork of the river. we could not determine which was the Missourie the hunters killed 6 elk in all to day we saw a high mountain to the west of us. one hunter man Shot a large beaver this evening. Monday 3rd June 1805. a fair morning, we delayed untill 8 oclock then moved our camp over to the point between the two rivers, two small canoes were unloaded and a Sergeant and 2 men ? one of them Sent in each up the 2 rivers to see what discoveries they could make, Some men went out a hunting also. their is 3 Islands in the ? left hand river which is the largest & swiftest river. Some men went out towards a mountain covred with Snow to the South of this place. the Captains walked out on the high hills in the point they observed a level country to the foot of the mountain which lay South of this also a river which falls in to the right hand fork about 1 1/2 miles up from? the mouth on the hard? Side this little river discharges a great