Journal entry · February 10, 1805
Lewis: February 10, 1805
Meriwether Lewis · Fort Mandan (winter)
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
10th February Sunday 1805. This Morning was Cloudy after a slight snow
which fell in the course of the night the wind blue very hard from N. W.
altho the thermometer stood at 18° Above naught the violence of the wind
caused a degree of could that was much more unpleasent than that of
yesterday when thermometer stood at 10° only above the same point. Mr.
McKinzey left me this morning. Charbono returned with one of the Frenchmen
and informed that he had left the three Horses and two men with the meat
which Capt. Clark had sent at some distance below on the riverhe
told me that the horses were heavy loaded and that not being shod it was
impossible for horses to travel on the ice. I determined to send down some
men with two small slays for the meat and accordingly I gave orders that
they should set out early the next morning. two men were also sent to
conduct the horses by way of the plain.
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Fort Mandan, ND (left shore)
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of February 1 to February 28, 1805
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