Clark: November 22, 1804

22nd of November Thursday 1804 a fine morning Dispatched a perogue and 5
Men under the Derection of Sergeant Pryor to the 2nd Village for 100
bushels of Corn in ears which Mr. Jessomme, let us have did not get more
than 80 bushelsI was allarmed about 10 oClock by the Sentinal, who
informed that an Indian was about to Kill his wife in the interpeters fire
about 60 yards below the works, I went down and Spoke to the fellow about
the rash act which he was like to commit and forbid any act of the kind
near the fort- Some missunderstanding took place between this man &
his wife about 8 days ago, and She came to this place, & Continued
with the Squars of the interpeters, 2 days ago She returned to the Villg.
in the evening of the Same day She came to the interpeters fire
appearently much beat, & Stabed in 3 placesWe Detected that no
man of this party have any intercourse with this woman under the penelty
of Punishmenthe the Husband observed that one of our Serjeants
Slept with his wife & if he wanted her he would give her to him, We
derected the Serjeant Odway to give the man Some articles, at which time I
told the Indian that I believed not one man of the party had touched his
wife except the one he had given the use of her for a nite, in his own
bed, no man of the party Should touch his Squar, or the wife of any
Indian, nor did I believe they touch a woman if they knew her to be the
wife of another man, and advised him to take his Squar home and live
hapily together in future,at this time the Grand Chief of the
nation arrived, & lecturd him, and they both went off apparently dis

The grand Chief continued all day a warm Day fair afternoonmany
Indian anickdotes one Chief & his familey Stay all night.