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"On the hills we observed considerable quantities of dwarf juniper, which seldom grows higher than three feet.

We killed in the course of the day an elk, three geese, and a beaver.

The beaver on this part of the Missouri are in greater quantities, larger and fatter, and their fur is more abundant and of a darker color, than any we have hitherto seen.
Their favorite food seems to be the bark of the cottonwood and willow, as we have seen no other species of tree that has been touched by them, and these they gnaw to the ground through a diameter of twenty inches." And on the twenty-first of April the journal says: "Last night there was a hard white frost, and this morning the weather was cold, but clear and pleasant; in the course of the day, however, it became cloudy and the wind rose.