Fort Mandan, preparing for departure — Patrick Gass: March 29, 1805
Morning rain gave way to a fine forenoon. Captain Lewis set out with a hunter and traveled about seven miles down the river to view a very large spring emerging from the south bank of the Missouri. A second heavy rain shower fell in the afternoon, followed by a pleasant evening. Captain Lewis returned to camp with game, though he was thoroughly drenched from the rain encountered during the trip.
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Rain in the morning, but a fine forenoon after it. Captain Lewis and a hunter went down the river about 7 miles, to see a very large spring which rises out of the bank of the Missouri on the south side. In the afternoon there was another heavy shower of rain, and after it a fine evening. Captain Lewis came to camp, but drenched with rain.
Monday 1st April, 1805. A fine day. Captain Clarke (Clark) and the men came with all the baggage, except some they had left 8 miles back. The interpreter, his wife, and the child, had gone to see the spring at the falls; and when the storm began, they took shelter under a bank at the mouth of a run; but in five minutes there was seven feet of water in the run, and they were very nearly swept away. They lost a gun, an umbrella, and a surveyor's compass, and barely escaped with their lives.
Tuesday 2nd. A fine morning. The surveyor's compass, which had been lost, was found today. The men went out for the baggage which had been left on the way, and got in with the whole of it, and the canoes safe.
In the evening, most of the corps crossed over to an island, to attack and rout its monarch, a large brown bear, that held possession and seemed to defy all that would attempt to besiege him there. Our troops, however, stormed the place, gave no quarter, and its commander fell. Our army returned the same evening to camp without having suffered any loss on their side.
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