Missouri River approaching Cannonball River — Joseph Whitehouse: October 15, 1804
Heavy rain fell through the night, and the party set out early in the morning. Strong south winds delayed their planned departure until afternoon, when the officers decided to drop downriver to a chosen site for building a fort. By dark, the boat and pirogues had arrived at a wooded spot on the northeast side of the river, about nine and a half miles below the second Mandan village, where construction of the fort was begun.
rained all last night. we Set off eairly
1 The entries for the dates October 10 to 15 inclusive have inthe MS. been crossed
out with pen-marks. — Ep.
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1804] WHITEHOUSE’S JOURNAL
CuarpTeErR V
AMONG THE MANDANS
November 1 1804—January 20, 1805
November thur. 1 1804.1
HE wind blew So fresh from the South that we Could
not Get Under Way at the time appointed as the
Officers Intended falling down the the river before two
oclock P. M., to the place that the[y] wish? to build a fort.
at dark we ariv? with the boat and Peirouges 9% Miles below
the 2°* vilage of Mandans at a piece of woods On the N. E.
Side whare we Commenced building the fort.
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It rained all last night. We set off early.
[Note: The entries for the dates October 10 to 15 inclusive have in the manuscript been crossed out with pen-marks. — Ed.]
Chapter V — Among the Mandans
November 1, 1804 — January 20, 1805
Thursday, November 1, 1804.
The wind blew so fresh from the south that we could not get under way at the time appointed, as the officers intended floating down the river before two o'clock P.M. to the place where they wished to build a fort. At dark we arrived with the boat and pirogues nine and a half miles below the second village of the Mandans, at a piece of woods on the northeast side, where we commenced building the fort.
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