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The Journals
of Lewis and Clark: Dates February 22, 1805 - February
28, 1805
The following
excerpts are taken from entries of the Journals of Lewis
and Clark. Dates: February 22, 1805 - February 28, 1805
February
22, 1805
Friday, 22nd. The morning was cloudy and a little snow
fell, but in the afternoon the weather became fair.
We were visited by a number of Indians, among whom was
Shotawhorora, a chief of much consideration among the
Mandan, although by birth a Ricara.
February
23, 1805
Saturday,
23d. The day is warm and pleasant. Having worked industriously
yesterday and all this morning we were enabled to disengage
one of the pirogues and haul it on shore, and also nearly
to cut out the second. The father of the boy whose foot
had been so badly frozen, and whom we had now cured,
came to-day and carried him home in a sleigh.
February
24, 1805
Sunday, 24th.
The weather is again fine. We succeeded in loosening
the second pirogue and barge, though we found a leak
in the latter. The whole of the next day,
February
25, 1805
Monday, 25th,
we were occupied in drawing up the boats on the bank:
the smallest one we carried there with no difficulty,
but the barge was too heavy for our elk-skin ropes which
constantly broke. We were visited by Orupsehara, or
Black Moccasin, and several other chiefs, who brought
us presents of meat on the backs of their squaws, and
one of the Minnetarees requested and obtained permission
for himself and his two wives to remain all night in
the fort. The day was exceedingly pleasant.
February
26, 1805
Tuesday 26.
The weather is again fine. By great labor during the
day we got all the boats on the bank by sunset, an operation
which attracted a great number of Indians to the fort.
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