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Show JOt.JgNAL. ken off logs for canoes, one 2 5 and tl c othe r .)0 feet in lenr,th. The c. no"s h .. td 1 uunH.:d to out· ol1l c: .. unp, ' r here Capt<.tin !' .. c•.\ is y,as. Sa·unlt.y 13./z. A fine dar, IJttt hi3h \\~ind. Captain LL\\is C:C111lC up lJ(.re, accornpa'l' ..:d by the SCJllll\\. lk informLd us that tl~e C'llHkS L<~ d ~L,,rtt:d ' ritl1 all tiJc IJ<~~T!7~t~'·c from the i01 Jl1(;: cncJll' J')mcnt .• •) 0 ' " l1ich we bad called \\'bite-bear Ll f1i), Th(: rnns- CJ1litoes a1 e ve1 y tl'llt:Llcsome . Thi..; c\'ening tLe canoes w<.:re finishc~.l except the pllllinh in sat H:! knees. Sunr/ar; 1 ~th. A fmc mornin;;·. .AJ1ont l 1 o,cloc~;: the mel{ came up with the can')CS ; nc~ b tgg~~e. The dis .. ance IJy water· \H\S found to he ~2 mile:-;, and br Iaml only 6 miles. In Lht~ ~l ftu·ttoon som ~.. rain fell but we continued to wcrk at tb ~can oes, and fini~hcd them re,tdy for load in ':i • JOURNAL. 4'!n the Not·th side, called by the name of Warner'~ ·creek. Friday 1 Ot!J. Y{ e se) out early in a fair morning - but ba\'ing gone five m1les were obliged to halt ;nd lye by (~tll'ing the day, on C'..ccount of hard wind. ~ome smali showers of r;1in occasionally fell. Hc1• . we kil1~cl some deer and bu {faloe and took somt Saturday 1 1 tlz. The m.or: 1ing was fine, y,·c starte:c.' ~t the u~ u a l honr: at 1 passed a small creek on the South side. This cb.y y;e saw seYc>·al <)"reat o·angs o( bnffaloe, and other ~amc in plenty. 0°ne of~he 'me~ killed anothcl' lcl!' ~~·c brown bear, about the size of the one lately killed. 'Ve came seYenteen 1niles an(! encamped on the South side. Sunday 12th . \Y7 C<'.rly renewed our voyage anc1 had a p leas:1nt mornlng ; passed some hi!ls on the .No rth !:>ide, covet·~cl \'r 1th pine and cedar, the first timber of any lnncl we have seen on the hills for a long time. At 1 we halted for dinner and a violcm. storm of wind then ~n osc, which continued until •nig ht when some rain fell. Our distance this dar only 13 ~ mik s. 1\fondav 13rlt The weather continued storm)", ~nd some few drops of rain fdl. At 1 P. l\1. ,. .... c. embarked ; passed tLrce CI ccks, one on tlte North r;idc and two on the South ; YV'ent seven n1ilcs an~ encamped in a la1·g·e bot~om. T uersday 14th. There '-' \ l.1 so :ne white fmst in the mor ni11g, we proceeded on early ; pnssed black h ills close to the river ou the Sonlh s!de and somr covered with pine timber at a cli::itance. Abvnt 1 ~ t he day became ·.v~rm . B .. mks of ~now were see:\ lying on the bills on the 1'~ orti1 sick. Ti,is foreno·)n we passed a !aq~c L.l'e<;k on the Ncrth side and s. small r iver on the South . About 4 in the aftet·noon ,,,.! passed nnotl1 el' sm~:l rin:r oa the South side neat ·J1e mouth of which some of the men discovet·ed a l'( |