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5 November Monday 1804—
I rose verry
early and commenced raising the 2 range of
Huts[14]
the timber large
and heavy all to carry on on Hand
Sticks, cotton wood & Elm Som ash
Small, our Situation
Sandy, great numbers of Indians pass to and from
hunting
a camp of Mandans, A fiew miles below us Cought within two
days 100 Goats, by Driveing them in a Strong pen, derected
by a Bush
fence widening from the pen &c. &c. the Greater
part of this day
Cloudy, wind moderate from the N. W. I
have the Rhumitism verry bad, Cap
Lewis writeing all Day
we are told by our interpeter that 4 Ossiniboins
Indians, have
arrived at the Camps of the Gross Venters, & 50 Lodges
are
Comeing.[15]
Fort Mandan, the wintering-place of the expedition, was
located on the left bank
of the Missouri, seven or eight miles below the
mouth of Knife River; it was nearly
opposite the site of the later Fort
Clark. The latter post, "one of the most important
on the river," was on the right bank; Chittenden says (Amer. Fur Trade, p.
957) that its area was 132 X 147
feet. On its site a fortified trading post was built
in 1822; the later
structure, which was named Fort Clark, was erected in 1831, as
a post of
the American Fur Company. See description and history of this locality, in
Prince Maximilian's Voyage (Paris, 1841), ii, pp.
331–344.
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