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Sept. 24-
Remained about the Fort all day - Nothing of interest occurred.

Sept. 25-
Alexis, my native trader came in the evening asking for more goods and appeared quite dejected because he had so few goods to trade with and said that the natives did not want to trade with him he had so few things. He appeared to think my objection to giving him a large supply now was because I doubted his honesty and so he gave me in his imperfect English an account of his good behavior from the time he was a little boy, so I finally yielded and gave him some other articles. In the evening he remained with me and I asked him about