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  Clark
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  August 23, 1804
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  23rd August Thursday 1804 Set out this morning verry early, the two men R# 
  Fields & Shannon did not Come up last night, I went out and Killed a 
  fine Buck, J# Fields Killed a Buffaloes, 2 Elk Swam by the boat whilst I 
  was out and was not Killed, many guns fired at it R# Fields Came up with 
  the horses & brought two Deer, Collins Killed a Small doe, Several 
  Prarie wolves Seen Course West 4 Mls. to the mouth of a Small run between 
  two Bluffs of yellow Clay North 31/4 miles to the upper Pt# of Some timber 
  in the bend to S# S# near where R# fields Killed the Buffalow passed the 
  pt# of High Land on S# S at 1/4 of a mile, Capt# Lewis went out with 8 men 
  & brought the buffalow to the river at this bend, C# Lewis Killed a 
  Goose, wind blew hard of the flying Sands which rasies like a Cloud of 
  Smoke from the Bars when the wind Blows, the Sand being fine and 
  containing a breat perpotion of earth and when it lights it Sticks to 
  every thing it touches at this time the grass is white S 48° 3 miles to a 
  point of willows on the S# S# haveing passed the Sand Island L# S Camped 
  on the L S above the Island Saw an elk Standing on a Sand bar. Shields 
  Shot it thro the neck 101/4 
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