Clark: December 4, 1804
On a cloudy, raw Tuesday with a northwest wind, the Mandan chief Black Cat and two young chiefs visited the camp and stayed throughout the day, as had become customary. The Missouri River rose by an inch. The men completed work on the main bastion of Fort Mandan. Clark also noted growing concerns about one of their interpreters, observing that he was becoming presumptuous and discontented in his behavior.
4th of December Tuesday 1804 a Cloudy raw Day wind from the N. W. the
Black Cat and two young Chiefs Visit us and as usial Stay all Day the
river rise one inch finish the main bastion, our interpetr. we discover to
be assumeing and discontent’d
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4th of December, Tuesday, 1804. A cloudy, raw day with wind from the N.W. The Black Cat and two young chiefs visited us and, as usual, stayed all day. The river rose one inch. We finished the main bastion. Our interpreter, we are discovering, is becoming arrogant and discontented.
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