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Journal entry · September 9, 1804
Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain — John Ordway: September 9, 1804
John Ordway · Prairie dog village near present-day Chamberlain · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
on passed the Island. Several gangues of Buffalow on the Sides
of the hills on the South Side: we halted [and] took breakfast on
the South Side opposite to the upper end of the Island, we
heared the prarie woolves bark on the hills Cap* Clark went
on Shore in order to kill or see some of them &. C. we passed
several creeks & 2 Islands before dinner we passed a high Bluff
on S. S. & a small creek2 at which place we took dinner. G.
Drewyer killed 1 Buck & 2 fauns. R. Fields came to the Boat
had killed one Buffalow. passed red ceeder on the in Several
places along the Bluffs & Several creeks Cap* Clark joined us
at dark had killed a Buffalow near where we camped on a sand
beach S. S. Cap* Clark Informed us that the plains were allmost
covered with Buffalow the most of this days walk. I saw Sev-
ral on the bank.
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