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[[underlined]] Aug. 15 [[/underlined]] Spent the day in making up a few mammals. Getting supplies, packing specimens & writing. Expect to leave for a two or three weeks trip to the Wind R. Mts. Warm & pleasant.

[[underlined]] Aug. 16 [[/underlined]] Left LaNder and passing through Ft. Washakie camped on Sage Creek 7 miles north of the fort. Saw Capt. Ray and got permission to camp any where on the reservation A good frost in morning.
[[underlined]] Aug 17 [[/underlined]] Found a lot of ripe chokecherries & currants & Bull berries along the lakeshore. 
The lake is probably a mile wide in the widest place - most of the way it is narrow and crooked. It is deep with rock bottom in places. Is an old glacier bed and at the foot of the lake is a great dam of immense boulders and debris, [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] the terminal morain. 
The water of the lake is very clear & quite cold. There were about 1000 Widgens in upper end of lake and we got 4. 
Camped about 2 miles above Buffalo Lake at the farthest point that a wagon can reach.

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