April the 3rd.. Thursday (Wednesday) 1805—
a white
frost this morning, Some ice on the edge of the
water, a fine day Pack up
and prepare to load
observed equal altitudes of the ☉ with Sextant
and artificial horizen
| A.
M. |
7 H. - 51 m - 15.s. |
P.M. |
5 h. - 1 m. -
22 s. |
| " |
" - 52 -
52.5 |
|
5 - 3 - 3 |
|
" - 54 -
30 |
|
" - 5 - 41 |
altitude
produc'd from this observation is 36° - 31″ - 15″. Chronomiter
too fast 32 minits
observed Time
and Distance of ☉s. & ☽s.
nearest limbs with the
Sextant and Chronomiter—Sun
west.
|
Time |
Distance |
| PM. |
5H. -
15M. - 50S. |
43°. - 27′ -
15″ |
|
" - 18 - 24 |
" - 30 -
0 |
|
" - 20 - 5 |
" - 30 -
30 |
|
" - 31 - 29 |
" - 34 -
0 |
|
" - 36 - 47 |
" - 36 -
30 |
|
" - 39 - 7 |
" - 37 -
15 |
|
" - 40 - 55 |
" - 37 -
30 |
Mrs. La Rocke & McKinsey Clerk to the N W. Compy. Visit
us. Mr. McKinzey wishes to Get pay
for his horse lost in
our Service this Winter and one of which our men
were robed
this winter by the Tetons, we Shall pay this man for his
horse. we are all day engaged packing up Sundery articles
to be sent
to the President of the U.S.[4]
Box No. 1, contains the
following articles i. e.
In package No. 3 & 4
Male & female antelope, with their Skelitons.
No. 7 & 9 the horns of two
mule or Black tailed deer. a Mandan bow
an[d] quiver of arrows—
with some Recara's tobacco seed.
No. 11 a Martin
Skin, Containing the tail of a Mule Deer, a weasel
and three Squirels from
the Rockey mountains.
No. 12, The bones &
Skeleton of a Small burrowing wolf of the
Praries the Skin being lost by
accedent.
No. 99. The Skeliton of the white and Grey
hare.
Box No. 2, Contains 4
Buffalow Robes, and a ear of Mandan Corn.
The
large Trunk Contains a male & female Braro or
burrowing dog
of the Praire and the female's Skeliton.
a carrote of Ricaras Tobacco
a red fox Skin Containing a Magpie
No. 14 Minitarras Buffalow
robe Containing Some articles of Indian
dress.
No. 15 a mandan robe containing two
burrowing Squirels, a white
weasel and the Skin of
a Loucirvia. also
13 red fox Skins.
1 white Hare Skin
&c.
4 horns of the mountain ram
1 Robe representing a battle
between the Sioux & Ricaras against
the Minetares and
Mandans.
In Box No. 3.
Nos. 1 & 2 the Skins of the Male & female Antelope with
their Skeletons.
& the Skin of a Yellow
Bear which I obtained from the Sieoux
No. 4. Box. Specimens of
plants numbered from 1. to 67.
Specimens of Plants numbered from 1 to
60.
1 Earthen pot Such as the Mandans manufacture and use for culinary
purposes.[5]
1 Tin box containing insects mice
&c.
a Specimine of the fur of the antilope.
a Specimon of a
plant, and a parcel of its roots higly prized by the natives
as an efficatious remidy in cases of the
bite of the rattle Snake or
Mad Dog.
In a large Trunk[6]
Skins of a
male and female Braro, or burrowing Dog of the Prarie,
with the Skeleton
of the female.
1 Skin of the red fox Containing a Magpie
2 Cased
Skins of the white hare.
1 Minitarra Buffalow robe Containing Some
articles of Indian
Dress.
1 Mandan Buffalow robe Containing a
dressed Lousirva Skin, and
2 cased Skins of the Burrowing Squirel of the
Praries.
13 red fox Skins
4 Horns of the Mountain Ram, or big horn.
1 Buffalow robe painted by a mandan man
representing a battle
fought 8 years Since by the Sioux & Recaras
against the mandans,
me ni tarras & Ah wah har ways. (Mandans &c.
on horseback
Cage No. 6.
Contains a liveing burrowing Squirel of the praries
Cage No. 7.
Contains 4 liveing Magpies
Cage No. 9.
Containing a liveing hen of the Prairie
a large par of Elks horns containing [contained, i. e., held together—
Ed.] by the frontal bone.
