Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 1, 1804

bringing the pickets & preparing to picket in our Garrison &. C.
an Indian came from the Manden village to Inform us that a
large nomber 300 lodge of the Shian or [blank in Ms]2 nation had
come to their villages, a Scotsman3 who is tradeing at the Man-
‘ This was an inferior kind of rum distilled from sugar refuse or from coarse
molasses. Thwaites, I, 233, note 1.
1 •chiens * * * or Sharha Indians.” Clark.
3 “Mr G. Henderson.” Clark.
1804] SERGEANT ORD WAY’S JOURNAL 169
dens came to visit us. he belonged to the hudson bay company
[Ms. too worn to decipher] he brought over Tobacco Beeds &
other kinds of Goods. & traded with the Mandens for their furs &
buffalow Robes, they bring Some Guns to trade for horses &. C.
this hudsons bay compy lay Garrisoned near the N. W. Compy on
River [blank in Ms.]1 Eight or 10 days travel by land a North
course from this.