1st.. of February Friday 1805
a cold windey Day our
hunters returnd. haveing killed only
one Deer, a War
Chief of the Me ne tar ras came with some
Corn
requested to have a War hatchet made, & requested to
be allowed to go
to War against the Soues & Recarres who
had Killed a mandan Some time past. We refused, and gave
reassons,
which he verry readily assented to, and promised to
open his ears to all
We Said this Man is young and named
(Seeing
Snake)-Mar-book, She-ah-O-ke-ah. this mans Woman
Set out & he prosued her, in the evening
