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tains however the officers conclude to unclear unclear unclear go by land with a small party up each river in order to find out which will be the best for us to take, the hunters killed 4 buffaloe 3 Elk [[3?}] beaver & to our s.e. the Capt. gave each man a dram of ardent spirits. I killed 2 elk myself today as I was up the left fork as a spye?. Tuesday 4th June 1805. Capt. Lewis & 6 men set out to go up the Right hand fork. Capt. Clark & 5 more set out to go up the left hand fork. they intend to go about one day & a halfs walk up the rivers & see what discoveries they can make. Some of the men at camp killed 2 unclear Elk close by the camp for the skins, to dress?. the day proved cloudy, a fiew drops of rain towards evening & high cold wind from the N.E. 2 men who had been from camp a hunting returned had killed an Elk & a Deer & had set 2 traps for beaver. Cloudy all day. Wednesday 5th June 1805. the wind blew high from the N. all last night. a cloudy cold windy morning. one beaver caught in a trap last night. I stayed? in camp dressing skins for to make myself moccasons unclear one of the men by the name of goodrich has caught a considerable quantity of small fish. Some of them Scale? fish, the most part are unclear a smallish sized catfish, we have caught no large ones this season as we did last unclear season