Clark: March 20, 1805

I visited the Mandans on the 20th & have the canoes taken to the
River, ready to Decend to the fort when the River Clears,

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Fort Mandan 20th March Wednesday 1805. I with all the men which could be
Speared from the Fort went to Canoes, there I found a number of Indians
the men carried 4 to the River about 11/2 miles thro the Bottom, I visited
the Chief of the Mandans in the Course of the Day and Smoked a pipe with
himself and Several old men. cloudy wind hard from N.