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a very long trip of it. The strong wind of last night dissipated all the damp air of yesterday & thus we had no dew - 8am Cloudy, 81º - Prairies begin to rise & near the timbers undulate a little Bottoms sickly during overflow, but prairies I think are healthy - plenty deer in prairies but rather wild. By great good luck our drivers came back with oxen they had strayed 6 miles, & were not easily tracked on account of there being no dew - 9 am started 4 miles passed a creek had to head into