Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — John Ordway: March 27, 1805
The party brought all the pirogues down to Fort Mandan and spent the day preparing them and gathering supplies in readiness to set out on the next leg of the voyage. The ice on the river continued to break up and shift throughout most of the day, signaling that conditions were nearing the point where travel by water would soon be possible.
all the perogues down to the Fort and went at prepareingthem and
Gitting everry thing ready to Set out on our voyage, the Ice
kept Breaking and Starting the Most of the day.
Read this entry in modern English AI-translated
All the pirogues were brought down to the Fort, and we went to preparing them and getting everything ready to set out on our voyage. The ice kept breaking and starting most of the day.
This modernization is AI-generated for accessibility. The original above is the authoritative version.
Entities mentioned in this entry
Auto-extracted from the entry text. Hover any entity for context.
