Missouri River approaching Cannonball River — John Ordway: October 20, 1804

hunters out hunting on each Side of the River, we passed a creek
on N. S. 20 yds wide, passed Bottoms covered with Timber on
Boath Sides of the River. passd a creek on S.S. opposite the lowei
point of an Island.4 towards evening we passed the Is* old village
of the Mandens on the S.S. (Saw Buffalow Swimming the River)
we Camped at a Stone coal Bluff on S. S.5 our hunters joined us.
Brought in the Game which they had killed this day which was 12
Deer one Goat & a woolf, one of the hunters wounded a White Bare.