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14th. of January 1805 Monday

This morning early a number of indians men women children
Dogs &c. &c. passed down on the ice to joine those that passed
yesterday, we Sent Sergt Pryor and five men with those indians
to hunt (Several men with the Venereal cought from the Mandan
women) one of our hunters Sent out Several days [ago]
arived & informs that one Man (Whitehouse) is frost bit and
Can't walk home.