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only three prarie hens or phesants we took the horse meat and put it on our horses and proceeded a short distance further then left the creek and went over a mountain s.w. then followed down a ridge came to a spring run and halted and dined sumptiously on our horse meat one horse strayed unclear which had on him a pear of portmantous which had in it some marchandize and Capt. Lewis winter cloathes &c. 2 men sent back to the creek to hunt him we proceeded on up and down several hills and followed a ridge where the timber was fell so thick across the trail that we could hardly git along our horses got stung by the yallow wasps. we did not find any water to camp untill after dark and then camped on a ridge found a little water in a deep gulley a short distance from us. the different kinds of pine continues as usal. considerable of strait handsome timber on these ridges which resembles white ceeder but is called Arbervity no other kind except the pine & bolsom fir the mountains not so high as back but verry broken came about 14 mile this day the plains appear some distance off yet it is twice as far as we expected when we first discovred it from a high mountain Saturday 21st Sept. 1805. a clear pleasant morning we went out eairly to hunt up our horses but they were much scatered. we did not find them all untill about 10 oclock at which time we set out and proceeded on crossed a creek & went on a west course over a hilley rough trail on some of the ridges the timber has been killed by fire and fell across the trail so that we had