8th.. of April Monday 1805
Set out very early wind hard a head from the N.W. proceeded
on passed all the villages the inhabitants of which
flocked down in great numbers to view us, I took my leave
of the great Chief of the Mandans who gave me a par of excellent
mockersons, one canoe filed with water
every thing in
her got wet 2/3 of a barrel of powder lost by this
accident.
| From the upper part of
an island just below Marpar-} |
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| perycopatoo's
camp to a point of wood land on the |
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| Stad. side passing a high bluff on the Lad.
containing |
N. 40°. W. 3 1/2 |
| many
horizontal narrow stratas of Carbonate
wood, |
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| some of which are sixty feet above the
su[r]face of |
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| the
water |
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Camped on the S.S. opsd. a high bluff. an Indian Joined us,
also an Indian woman with a view to accompany us, the
woman was Sent back the man being acquainted with the
countrey we allowed him to accompanie us
