Clark: April 2, 1805

April the 2nd a Cold rain day we are writeing and prepareing dispatches
all dayI conclude to Send my journal to the President of the United
States in its original State for his own perusial, untill I call for it or
Some friend if I should not return, an this journal is from the 13th of
May 1804 untill the 3rd of April 1805. wrote untill verry late at night
but little time to devote to my friends, the river is falling fast.

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April the 2nd Friday 1805 a cloudy day rained all the last night we are
preparing to Set out all thing nearly ready. The 2d Chief of the 2d Mandan
Village took a miff at our not attending to him perticelarely after being
here about ten day and moved back to his village

The mandans Killed twenty one elk yesterday 15 miles below this, they were
So meager that they Scercely fit for use