Journal entry · January 5, 1805
Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 5, 1805
Joseph Whitehouse · Fort Mandan (winter) · Thwaites Vol. Thwaites Vol 7
The place today: Fort Mandan (winter)
a cloudy cold day. the 3 hunters which who went down the
river a hunting on the 4′!’ Ins! returned on the 7- Ins! they
informed us that they had nothing the 2 first days to eat only
one wolf which they killed, they informed us that it eat very
well, they killed after that 4 Deer & 2 wolves, the weather
continued verry Cold, nothing else remarkable hapened Since
the 5′.^ Instant.
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