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JOURNAI 
We Gontinued here all day ; and one of our huriter.i 
killed a beautiful small bird of the quail kind. 
Tue&day %th. This \vas a fine morning, but the 
"viiid blew so hard from the northeast that it was im- 
possible to go on ; and ab©ut 8 o'clock the swells 
ran so high that we had to unload our canoes, and 
haul some of tliem out of the water to prevent their 
being injured. Some of the men are ccmplaining 
of rlieumatick pains; which are to be expected from 
the wet and cold we sufiercd last winter, durin.e 
which from the •4th of November 1805 to the 2' 5th 
«..f March 1806 J th^te were not more than twelve 
dayc4 in which it dW not rain§ and of •these but six 
were clear. Two hunters, who had gone out in the 
morningj returnedj but had killed nothing, except a 
beautiful J?mall duck* 
