The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

March 19, 1805
March 21, 1805

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,

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.