. Audubon and his journals . consequence. No meat for another for the night at the mouth of the Moreau Pigeons, Sandpipers, but no fish. Monday, JftJi. Cool night. Wind rose early, but a finemorning. Stopped by the wind at eleven. Mr. Culbert-son, Bell, and Moncrevier gone shooting. Many signs ofElk, etc., and flocks of Wild Pigeons. A bad place forhunting, but good for safety. Found Beaver tracks, andsmall trees cut down by them. Provost followed the bankand found their lodge, which he says is an old one. It isat present a mass of sticks of different sizes matted to-get
. Audubon and his journals . consequence. No meat for another for the night at the mouth of the Moreau Pigeons, Sandpipers, but no fish. Monday, JftJi. Cool night. Wind rose early, but a finemorning. Stopped by the wind at eleven. Mr. Culbert-son, Bell, and Moncrevier gone shooting. Many signs ofElk, etc., and flocks of Wild Pigeons. A bad place forhunting, but good for safety. Found Beaver tracks, andsmall trees cut down by them. Provost followed the bankand found their lodge, which he says is an old one. It isat present a mass of sticks of different sizes matted to-gether, and fresh tracks are all around it To dig themout would have proved impossible, and we hope to catchthem in traps to-night. Beavers often feed on berrieswhen they can reach them, especially Buffalo berries\_SJiepJierdia argentea\ Mr. Culbertson killed a buck,and we have sent men to bring it entire. The Beaversin this lodge are not residents, but vagrant Beavers. Thebuck was brought in; it is of the same kind as at Fort. THE MISSOURI RIVER JOURNALS l6l Union, having a longer tail, we think, than the kind foundEast. Its horns were very small, but it is skinned and inbrine. We removed our camp about a hundred yardslower down, but the place as regards wood is very and I went to set traps for Beaver; he first cut twodry sticks eight or nine feet long; we reached the river bypassing through the tangled woods; he then pulled off hisbreeches and waded about with a pole to find the depthof the water, and having found a fit spot he dug away themud in the shape of a half circle, placed a bit of willowbranch at the bottom and put the trap on that. He hadtwo small willow sticks in his mouth; he split an end ofone, dipped it in his horn of castoreum, or medicine,as he calls his stuff, and left on the end of it a good massof it, which was placed in front of the jaws of the trapnext the shore; he then made the chain of the trap se-cure, stuck in a few untrimmed branches on eac
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