The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, March 20, 1805

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Clark, March 20, 1805

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.