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page number 61 Sept. Commissary building. 5th. Too busy to write. Genl Hazen, Dr McCleery & party left with pack mules for Fort Benton on the 4th. 6th. Very cold indeed; a foretaste of the kind of weather we are going to have this winter. 7th. Still very cold. A party of runners came in from up the river. They say they are the advance of a party of one hundred, that are going to come down and winter here. The Sioux ran off five of Mr Leighton's mules. Marr and a few men followed them about 12 miles and came on about 100 of them, and of course did not think it best to proceed any further. 8th. Marr and Leighton went out again and came upon the large body of