20th..
of October Satturday 1804—
Set out early this morning and
proceeded on the wind from
the S.E. after brackfast I walked out on the L.
Side to See
those remarkable places pointed out by Evins, I. saw an old
remains of a village (covering 6 or 8 acres) on the
Side of a hill
which the Chief with Too né tels me that nation
lived in 2 [a
number] villages 1 on each Side of
the river and the Troublesom
Seaux caused
them to move about 40 miles higher up
where they remained a fiew years
& moved to the place they
now live, (2) passed a small Creek on the
S.S. (3) and one on
the L. S. passed (4) a Island covered with willows
laying
in the middle of the river no current on the L.S. Camped on
the L.S. above a Bluff containing coal (5) of an inferior quallity,
this bank is imediately above the old Village of the Mandans.
The
Countrey is fine, the high hills at a Distance with gradual
assents,
I Kild. 3
Deer The Timber confined to the
bottoms
as useal which is much larger than below. Great numbers of
Buffalow Elk & Deer, Goats. our hunters killed 10 Deer &
a
Goat to day and wounded a white Bear,
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I saw several fresh
tracks of those animals which
is 3 times as large as a mans
track. The wind hard all Day from the N.E.
& East, great
numbers of buffalow Swimming the river I observe near
all
large gangues of Buffalow wolves and when the buffalow move
those animals follow, and feed on those that are killed by
accident
or those that are too pore or fat to keep up with the
gangue.
