Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — John Ordway: February 17, 1805
A hunting party spread out in different directions to drive game into the wooded bottomlands, where the best marksmen were positioned to take the shots. The hunters returned in the evening with a successful day's haul, having killed ten deer and four elk. They packed in some of the meat and hung the remainder up in trees to protect it from wolves until it could be retrieved.
in different directions, aiming to drive the Game in to the bottom
of wood as much as possable So that the best hunters who was
in the bottom might kill them, they all returned in the evening
had killed 10 deer and 4 Elk. packed Some of them in hung up
the remainder on trees so as to keep the wolves from it.
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We went in different directions, aiming to drive the game into the bottom of the woods as much as possible, so that the best hunters, who were in the bottom, might kill them. They all returned in the evening, having killed 10 deer and 4 elk. We packed some of them in and hung up the remainder on trees so as to keep the wolves from it.
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