Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 11, 1804

wind ; passed an island covered with timber, and high hills
and prairie on both sides of the river. At 1 o’clock it began
to rain. We saw some person coming down the river on
horseback, when we came to land and found it was the man
who had preceded us with the horses. He had left one of
the horses that had failed. We now had only one horse left.
This man had been absent 16 days, and his bullets being ex-
pended, he subsisted 12 days almost wholly on grapes. The
hills here come close to the river on both sides. One of the
men went by land with the horse, and we continued our voy-
age until night, though it rained very hard; and encamped on
the south side. Captain Clarke with two or three of the men
who had gone out to hunt, killed two elk, four deer and one
porcupine.