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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents
  
  
  
  
  
  
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20th. March Wednesday 1805.

I with all the men which could be Speared from the Fort
went to Canoes, there I found a number of Indians, the
men carried 4 to the River about 1 ½ miles thro' the Bottom,
I visited the Chief of the Mandans in the Course of the Day
and Smoked a pipe with himself and Several old men. Cloudy
wind hard from N.