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built fires on several of the canoes to burn them out found that they burned verry well. the hunters killed nothing this day. Wednesday 2nd Oct 1805. a fair morning two men sent up to the villages with six? of our horses and some marchandize to trade for sammon and their kind of bread &c. we continued our work as usal at the canoes. some hunters out in the hills a hunting. towards evening the hunters returned had killed nothing but one prarie wolf which we eat. the party are so weak working without any kind of meat that we concluded to kill a horse and accordingly we did kill a horse which was in tollarable order and we eat the meat with good stomaches as ever we did fat beef in the States-- we bought a fiew fresh sammon & some root bread from the natives &c. Thursday 3rd Oct. 1805 a fair morning we continued on our work at the canoes as usal. Some of them forward squiggle Friday 4th Oct 1805. a fair morning two men out a hunting. we continue at the canoes. some of them ready to dress and finish off. our hunters killed nothing this day. some of the men eat a fat dog Saturday 5th Oct 1805. a fair cool frosty morning the two men who had been at the villages trading returned late last night? with their horses loaded with