Down Missouri, approaching Mandan villages — John Ordway: August 15, 1806
The party spent the day dressing deer skins while local natives brought them corn, beans, and a breakfast of boiled simblins and beans. The second Mandan village gave them more corn than they could carry away. Captain Clark crossed over to try to persuade a chief from that village to travel down with the expedition, but no one was willing to go. Chiefs of the first village asked them to stay another day or two. The swivel gun was given to the Big Bellies, or Gros Ventres.
the party went at dressing themselves deer Skins &C. the na-
tives brought us corn and beans &C. they brought us a break-
fast of boild siniblins & beans &C. the 2 village of Mandans gave
us Considerable of corn and more than we would take away.
Cap* Clark went over and tryed to perswade Some of the chief of
that village to go down with us but they could not find any one
willing to go with us. the chiefs of the 1st village wished us to
1 “a little below the enterance of Shabonos Creek.” Clark.
2 The camp was “at the entrance of Myry river.” Clark. Ordway’s
“long distance” is estimated by Clark at eighty-six miles. The M. R. C. map
agrees closely with Clark’s statement, showing the length of the day’s journey
as a little over eighty miles.
390 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Aug. 16
Stay 1 or 2 days longer with them we gave the Swivvel to the
Big Belleys or Grousevauntars.1
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The party worked at dressing themselves in deerskins, etc. The natives brought us corn and beans, etc. They brought us a breakfast of boiled simlins (squash) and beans, etc. The second village of Mandans gave us a considerable amount of corn—more than we could take away.
Capt. Clark (Capt. Clark) went over and tried to persuade some of the chiefs of that village to go down with us, but they could not find anyone willing to go with us. The chiefs of the first village wished us to stay one or two days longer with them. We gave the swivel gun to the Big Bellies, or Grousevauntars (Gros Ventres).
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