Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 14, 1805
Light snow fell in the morning at the fort. Six additional hunters set out to join those already in the field, and a number of Native hunters went out as well. In the evening, one of the hunters who had departed earlier returned with news that the party had killed a buffalo, a wolf, and two porcupines. Whitehouse himself suffered severely frozen feet during the day, leaving him unable to walk back to the fort.
Some Snow fell this morning. 6 more hunters went out to
join the rest a nomber of the natives went out also, in the
evening one of the hunters that went out fi[r]st Came to the
fort, he informed us that they had killed one buffaloe a wolf
& 2 porkapines, & I got my feet So froze that I could not
walk to the fort.
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Some snow fell this morning. Six more hunters went out to join the rest, and a number of the natives went out also. In the evening, one of the hunters who went out first came to the fort. He informed us that they had killed one buffalo, a wolf, and two porcupines, and that he had gotten his feet so frozen that he could not walk to the fort.
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