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some beaver caught in a trap squiggle Sunday 18th August 1805. a clear morning. Capt. Clark and 11 men got in readiness to set out with the natives to go over the mountain to the other river to make canoes &c, Capt Lewis bought 4 horses of the natives gave them some he gave a uniform coat a knife & a hankercheif. others he gave red leggins a knife a hankerchief? and a fiew arrow points &c. 2 of the men joined and bought a horse to take their baggage on & gave only one brish? cloath one old unclear shirt & one knife for a good pack horse. these Indians are verry poor and vallue a little worth a great deal as they never had scarsely any kind of a knife or tommahawk or any weapons of war or to use. 2 or 3 guns only to be seen among them which we expect they got from some other nation who traded with the french or spanish? 248