12th.. December
Wednesday 1804—
a Clear Cold morning Wind from the north the Thermometer
at
Sun rise Stood at 38° below 0., moderated untill 6
oClock at which
time it began to get Colder. I line my Gloves
and have a Cap made of the
Skin of the Louservia[34]
(Lynx) (or
wild Cat of the North) the fur near 3 inches long, a Indian
of the
Shoe[35]
(Maharha or Mocassin) Nation
Came with the half
of a
Cabra ko kâ or Antilope which he killed near the Fort.
Great numbers of those animals are near our fort (
so
that they
do not all return to rock mountain Goat) but the weather is
So
Cold that we do not think it prudent to turn out to hunt in
Such
Cold weather, or at least untill our Const
s. are prepared
to under go this Climate. I measure the river from bank to
bank on
the ice and make it 500 yards
