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running through the rapids waves & whorl pools we got all the canoes down and loaded them we have bought a large quantity about 16 common bags of pounded Sammon Some white bread cranberries & about 3 oclock we Set out and proceeded on down the narrows which lasted abt 2 miles verry rapid . 2 Small Islands of Solid rocks Stood in the channel one of the canoes ran hir bow against the point and glanced off without Injury the water or river between these narrows and the falls runs at high water 48 feet perpendicular by its being confined by the different narrows at the lower end of the narrows we Saw a war party of Indians with horses. they had deer & bear meat with them the head chief had on a jacket that was made of Some kind of worked skin? which would defend the narrows- our Capt gave him a meddle then he gave our Capt Some bears oil and a fresh Sammon our 2 chiefs came to us and told us that their was a nation [[below?] that which had a design to kill them and us So they left us in order to return to their own village again. we then proceeded on about eight miles the hills high Some pine and oak timber to be seen the river got Smooth we Camp on the high point of rocks little below the mouth of a creek on the [[Lar d}] Side [[unclear}] timbered country back from the River unclear saw drumm fish jump in and