Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 21, 1805
A clear but cold morning with an east wind allowed the party to set off at sunrise and travel under sail past high bluffs, round knobs, and timbered bottoms along the river. The surrounding hills were lower and the country more pleasant than downstream. Around noon, rising winds forced them to halt on the south shore, stranding one canoe with two men, including the writer, on the opposite bank without blankets in bitter cold. Hunters killed a buffalo, deer, two beaver, and a goose. They traveled only 10 miles.
aCLE AR pleasant morning but cold, we Set off at Sun
rise, the wind from the east, we Sailed Some, we
passed high bluffs and round knobs on the S. S. and
bottoms of timber on each Side of the River. the hills in
general are not so high as they have been below, the country-
more pleasant, and the timber more pleanty. about 12 oClock
the wind rose So high that we were oblidged to halt in a bottom
of timber on the South Side, one cannoe lay on the opposite
Shore & could not cross. I and one more was in the cannoe
and ware obledged to lay out all night without any blanket, it
being verry cold I Suffered verry much. Some of the party
went out to hunt, they killed one buffaloe one Deer 2 beaver
and one Goose, the party camped opposite to where I lay all
night the man who was with me kill? a Deer, (came only 10
miles to day)
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A clear pleasant morning but cold. We set off at sunrise. The wind was from the east, and we sailed some. We passed high bluffs and round knobs on the south side, and bottoms of timber on each side of the river. The hills in general are not as high as they have been below; the country is more pleasant, and the timber more plentiful.
About 12 o'clock the wind rose so high that we were obliged to halt in a bottom of timber on the south side. One canoe lay on the opposite shore and could not cross. I and one other man were in that canoe and were obliged to lay out all night without any blanket. It being very cold, I suffered very much.
Some of the party went out to hunt. They killed one buffalo, one deer, two beaver, and one goose. The party camped opposite to where I lay all night. The man who was with me killed a deer. (Came only 10 miles today.)
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