Fort Mandan, North Dakota — Patrick Gass: November 5, 1804

wind, and had a clear day. We passed a long island covered
with timber, and three men went to hunt on it. On the north
side are yellow bluffs, out of which issue several beautiful
springs. Opposite the head of the island, on the south side,
flows in a river, called Pania river; and about three miles
higher up, on the north side, a creek, called Goat creek. On
the hills above this creek we saw some goats or antelopes,
which the French called cabres. About 4 we encamped on an
island, where we made and put in a new mast. The three men,
who went to hunt on the long island, killed a deer and an elk;
and two more went out from camp and killed another deer
and an elk, both young.