11th..
December Tuesday 1804—
a verry Cold morning Wind from the
north The Thermometer
at 4 oClock A M. at
21°. [sunrise at 21°. see list]
below 0
which is 53°. below the freesing point and getting
colder, the Sun
Shows and reflects two imigies, the ice floating
in the atmospear being So thick that the appearance is like
a fog
Despurceing.
Sent out three horses for meat & with Derections for all
the
hunters to return to the fort as Soon as possible at 1 oClock
the horses returned loaded, at night all the hunters returned,
Several a little frosted, The Black Cat Chief of
the Mandans
paid us a Visit to day, continue Cold all day river at a
Stand.
