Clark: February 1, 1805

1st of February Friday 1805 a cold windey Day our hunters returnd. haveing
killed only one Deer, a war Chief of the Me ne tar ras Came with Some Corn
requested to have a War hatchet made, & requested to be allowed to go
to war against the Souis & Ricarres who had Killed a mandan Some time
pastwe refused, and gave reassons, which he verry readily assented
to, and promised to open his ears to all we Said this man is young and
named (Seeing Snake Mar-book, She-ah-O-ke-ah) this mans woman Set out
& he prosued her, in the evening