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189 drink freely of it in the bottoms is a considerable illegible growing all in bloom. Capt. Lewis party had prepared buffalow meat and had caught & dryed a large quantity of fine fish which we call salmon troute Monday 17th June 1805, a cloudy morning Some men employed taking the canoes up the little river about 1 3/4 miles 6 men employed makeing small cow waggons to hall the canoes and baggage by the carrying place above the falls. Capt. Clark and five men went to survey & measure the distance up to the head of the falls, to where we can take water again & to look out a road for us to go up with the waggons &c. 2 hunters out to git elk skins to put our iron boat together above the falls as we ? leave our largest craft here. the timber is verry scarse about the falls, verry high plains the buffalow plenty, in the evening we got the canoes up the small river to the falls of it which is about 4 feet perpenticular, we had some difficulty in getting them up the rapids to day, as well as a dangerous job one canoe turned upside down in a bad rapid & was near drowning the 2 men which was in her. Several others filled with water but we haled them up safe to the place convenient? at the falls to take them up the bank, we caried them out on a level & turned them up on edge to dry