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to where we can take water again. two men was attacked by a verry large white bear one of them & Willard near being caught. Capt. Clark went & relieved them & 3 men with him, but night comming on & the bushes thick it being on an Island. they did not kill it they saw 1 or 2 other white bear, they saw also innumerable gangs of buffalow & killed 8 of those animals & one beaver. they saved as much of the buffalow meat as possable 1 mile above the fall of 47 feet 8 inches is the largest fountain or spring. as they think is the largest in america known this water boils up from under the rocks near the river & falls immediately into the river & but & keeps its coulour for 1/2 a mile which is clear & of a blueish cast. they inform us that their is many shoots or little falls between the high ones. the large catteract or falls is a large mist? quite across the fall for a long distance from them. Capt. Clark saw rattle snakes but saw verry illegible timber they turned back this morning in order to look out the best & smoothest portage pasable to take the canoes & baggage &c