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three of the illegible canoes like to have overset & one in great danger. Several Rattle Snakes has been Seen by the party to day. one man took hold of one with his hand which was in a bunch of bushes but luckly escaped being bit, our Intrapterz? wife verry sick. Capt. Clark killed this evening one elk & a deer. Some other of the hunters killed 1 or 2 more we passed in the course of the day a number of gravelly islands & bars. the shore on each side is covered with Stone of different sizes we came 18 miles to day & camped at a handsom bottom of cottonwood on the N. Side where the elk & deer was killed. Thursday 13th June 1805. a beautiful pleasant morning. we set out at an eairly hour & proceeded on passed the mouth of a small river on the South Side about 50 yards wide & rapid current & of a muddy coulour illegible over the river to see it. large bottoms of cotton timber for some distance up. we named it Snowey River as we expect it comes from the Snowey mountain to the south of us. passed verry high bluffs on each side some small bottoms of cotton timber. we saw abundance of wild or choke cherries & a kind of yallow current, such as I never have before the goose berrys are now ripe & abound in the river bottoms we came 14 miles to day & Camped on the South side I was taken verry sick to day & a vilont headach illegible buffaloe killed to day.