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183 the wind rose high from the west towards evening we had a frolick the? officers gave the party a dram. the fiddle played and they danced late we had a light shower of rain late in the evening. rope works made Monday 10th June 1805. a beautiful pleasant morning. the party employed Some makeing a towing line for the white perogue. others employed digging another hole So that we might bury in different places what we left so that the Savages Should find one perhaps they would not find the other & we would have some left still about 10 oclock we halled up the red perogue on an Island on the North Side of the N. fork which was covered with small cotton timber we halled it among the thickets? of trees & ran the bow between two & pined her on each Side & covered her over with bushes & secured her as well as possable, branded several trees with the US mark & Capt. M. Lewis & Lat° squiggle The black smiths fired up the bellowses & made a main spring to illegible air gun as the one belonging to it got broke the articles which we intend to bury all got ready the loading which came out of the red perogue divided out to the white perogue & canoes & loaded them put a canister of power & lad accordingly in the ground? near the point between the two river at our Camp about 4 oclock pm we had a light shower of rain the evening pleasant.