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4th. March Monday 1805 Fort Mandan

a cloudy morning wind from the NW the after part of the
day Clear, visited by the Black Cat & Big white, who
brought a Small present of meat, an Engage of the NW Co:
Came for a horse, and requested in the name of the woman of
the principal of his Department some Silk of three Colours,
which we furnished. The Assinniboins who visited the
Mandans a fiew days ago, returned and attempted to take
horses of the Minetarees & were fired on by them.