Clark: November 5, 1804

5th November Monday 1804 I rose verry early and commenced raising the 2
range of Huts the timber large and heavy all to Carry on Hand Sticks,
Cotton wood & Elm Som ash Small, our Situation Sandy, great numbers of
Indians pass to and from hunting a Camp of Mandans, A fiew miles below us
Cought within two days 100 Goat, by Driveing them in a Strong pen,
derected by a Bush fence widening from the pen &c. &. the Greater
part of this day Cloudy, wind moderate from the N. W. I have the Rhumitism
verry bad, Cap Lewis writeing all Daywe are told by our interpeter
that 4 Ossiniboin Indians, have arrived at the Camps of the Gross Venters
& 50 Lodges are Comeing