@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} November 2, 1805 @section 3 {txc} Novr. 2d Saturday 1805 Meridian altitude 59° 45' 45" made a portage of about 11/2 miles with half of the Baggage, and run the rapid with the Canoes without much damage, one Struck a rock & Split a little, and 3 others took in Some water 7 Squars Came over the portage loaded with Dried fish & Beargrass, Soon after 4 men Came down in a Canoe after takeing brackfast, & after taking a meridian altitude we Set out Passed 2 bad rapids one at 2 & the other at 4 mile below the Isd on Lard# and upper end of Strawberry Island on the Stard# Side from the Creek end of last Course = We Labiech killed 14 Geese & a Brant, Collins one Jos. Fields & R# 3 those gees are much Smaller than Common, and have white under their rumps & around the tale, The tide rises here a fiew 9 Inches, I cannot assertain the prosise hite it rises at the last rapid or at this placeof Camp. = The Indians we left at the portage passed us this evening one other Canoe Come up =