Journal Entry

Clark: December 22, 1804

December 22, 1804
William Clark Fort Mandan, North Dakota

22nd December Satturday 1804 a number of Squars womn & men Dressed in
Squars Clothes Came with Corn to Sell to the men for little things, we
precured two horns of the animale the french Call the rock mountain Sheep
those horns are not of the largest kindThe mandans Indians Call
this Sheep Ar-Sar-ta it is about the Size of a large Deer, or Small Elk,
its Horns Come out and wind around the head like the horn of a Ram and the
teckere not unlike it much larger and thicker perticelarly that part with
which they but or outer part which is ____ inchs thick, the length of
those horns, which we have is

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