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Thursday Dec 31 1874 The last day of the year - Cold & severe Mercury nearly frozen - Baxter & Wilson two of the British soldiers came down at dark on their way to Ft Kipp. It was windy & blustery . snow filled the air so that it was impossible to see 100 yds - We tried to persuade them from going tonight and insisted upon their stopping till morning but they persisted in going - I followed them outside & told them they would get lost & freeze to death on the plain but it was no use . they set out & in a day or two both were found dead . perished rather than take the advice of those who knew more about travelling in the snow than they

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Monday Feb 1 1875 The weather has been severely cold all through the month - Mercury frozen the most of the time Teamsters I N. Clark & S. C. Baker & Squaw Came in from Bow River with two load of robes - Tingle the other teamster was in Camp at Pine Coulee . they