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  Clark
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  December 27, 1805
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  December 27th Friday 1805. rained last night as usial and the greater part 
  of this day, the men Complete Chimneys & Bunks to day, in the evening 
  a Chief and 4 men Come of the Clotsop nation, Chief Co~ma wool we Sent out 
  R# Fields & Collins to hunt and order Drewyer, Shannon & Labiach 
  to Set out early to morrow to hunt, ¬ Jo Fields, Bratten, & Gibson 
  to make Salt at Point Addams, ¬  Willard & Wiser, to assist them in 
  carrying the Kitties &c to the Ocian, and all the others to finish the 
  Pickets and gates. worm weather I Saw a Musquetor which I Showed Capt# 
  Lewis ¬ Those Indians gave is, a black root they Call Shan~na~tah que 
  a kind of Licquerish which they rost in embers and Call Cul ho~mo, a black 
  berry the Size of a Cherry & Dried which they call Shel~well, ¬ all 
  of which they prise highly and make use of as food to live on, for which 
  Capt Lewis gave the chief a Cap of Sheep Skin and I his Son, ear bobs, 
  Piece of riben, a pice of brass, and 2 Small fishing hooks, of which they 
  were much pleased Those roots & berres, are greatfull to our Stomcks 
  as we have nothing to eate but Pore Elk meet, nearly Spoiled; & this 
  accident of Spoiled meet, is owing to wormth & the repeeted rains, 
  which cause the meet to tante before we Can get it from the woods 
  Musquetors troublesorn 
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