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1804:

Captain Clark

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Captain Lewis

1806:

Captain Clark (current)

Captain ClarkCaptain Clark:
July 9, 1806

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Set several men to work digging for the tobacco Captain Lewis informed me had had buried in the place the lodge stood when we lay here last summer. They searched diligently without finding anything. At 10 A.M. Sergeant Ordway and party arrived with the horses we had lost. He reported that he found those horses near the head of the creek on which we encamped, making off as fast as they could, and much scattered.

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