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with a kind reception from Mr. Pascal. Previous to this 

 we met a barge going up, owned and commanded by Mr. 

 Tybell, and found our good hunter Michaux. He asked me 

 to take him down, and I promised him $20 per month to 

 St. Louis. We bought two barrels of superb potatoes, two 

 of corn, and a good fat cow. For the corn and potatoes I 

 paid no less than $16.00. 



Thursday, 28th. A beautiful morning, and we left at 

 eight. The young man who brought me the calf at Fort 

 George has married a squaw, a handsome girl, and she is 

 here with him. Antelopes are found about twenty-five 

 miles from this fort, but not frequently. Landed fifteen 

 miles below on Elk Point. Cut up and salted the cow. 

 Provost and I went hunting, and saw three female Elks, but 

 the order was to shoot only bucks; a large one started 

 below us, jumped into the river, and swam across, carrying 

 his horns flat down and spread on each side of his back ; 

 the neck looked to me about the size of a flour-barrel. 

 Harris killed a hen Turkey, and Bell and the others saw 

 plenty but did not shoot, as Elks were the order of the 

 day. I cannot eat beef after being fed on Buffaloes. I am 

 getting an old man, for this evening I missed my footing 

 on getting into the boat, and bruised my knee and my 

 elbow, but at seventy and over I cannot have the spring of 

 seventeen. 



Friday, 29th. Rained most of the night, and it is 

 raining and blowing at present. Crossed the river and 

 have encamped at the mouth of the Iowa River,^ the 

 boundary line of the Sioux and Omahas. Harris shot a 

 Wolf. My knee too sore to allow me to walk. Stormy 

 all day. 



Saturday, 30th. Hard rain all night, the water rose four 



1 On the south side of the Missouri, in present Nebraska, n short dis- 

 tance above the mouth of the Big Sioux. This small stream is Roloje Creek 

 of Lewis and Clark, Ayoway River of Nicollet, appearing by error as " Nor- 

 way " and " Nioway " Creek on General Land Office maps. — E. C. 



