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  Clark
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  June 17, 1804
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  June 17th Sunday 1804 (S# 65°W# me# S# Side)
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  Cloudy morning wind from the 
  S# E# we Set out early and proceeded on one mile & came too to make 
  oars, & repair our Cable & toe rope &c# &c# which was 
  necessary for the Boat & Perogues, Sent out Sjt# Pryor and Some men to 
  get ash timber for ores, and Set Some men to make a Toe Rope out of the 
  Cords of a Cable which had been provided by Capt Lewis at Pitts burg for 
  the Cable of the boat. George Drewyer our hunter and one man came in 
  with 2 Deer & a Bear, also a young Horse, they had found in the 
  Prarie, this horse has been in the Prarie a long time and is fat, I 
  suppose he has been left by Some war party against the Osage, This is a 
  Crossing place for the war partis against that nation from the Saukees, 
  Aiaouez, & Souix. The party is much aflicted with Boils and Several 
  have the Decissentary, which I contribute to the water 
  The Countrey about this place is butifull on the river rich & well 
  timbered on the S# S# about two miles back a Prarie coms# which is rich 
  and interspursed with groves of timber, the county# rises at 7 or 8 miles 
  Still further back and is rolling. on the L# S# the high lands & 
  Prarie coms# in the bank of the river and Continus back, well watered and 
  abounds in Der Elk & Bear The Ticks & Musquiters are verry 
  troublesom. 
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