February 22, 1805

"a cloudy morning, at about 12 oClock it began to rain and continued for a fiew minits, and turned to Snow, and Contined Snowing for about one hour, and cleared away fair.    The two hunters arrived, they killed two Elk and hung them up out on the reach of the wolves - "

February 23, 1805

" All hands employed in Cutting the perogus Loose from the ice; we found great difficuelty in effecting this work owing to the Different devisions of Ice & water. after cutting as much as we could with axes, we had all the Iron we could get & Some axes put on long poles and picked throught the ice, under the first water, which was not more the 6 or 8 inches deep - we disengaged one Perogue, and nearly disingaged the 2nd in the Course of this day which has been warm & pleasent." "


February 24, 1805

"we commenced very early to day the Cutting loose the boat which was more difficuelt than the perogus with great excertions and with the assistance of Great prises we lousened her and turned the Second perogue upon the ice, ready to draw out, in lousening the boat from the ice some of the corking drew out which caused her to leake for a few minits untill we discovered the leake & stoped it-"

February 25, 1805

"we were visited by the Black mockerson Chief of the little Village of Big Bellies, the Chief of the Shoe Indians and a number of others  those Chiefs gave us some meat which they packed on their wives, and one requested a ax to be made for hies Sun.   The Day has been exceedingly pleasent."

February 26, 1805

 "Commenced verry early in makeing preparations for drawing up the Boat on the Bank, at Sunset by repeated excertions the whole day we accomplished this troublesom task, just as we were fixed for having the Boat the ice gave away near us for about 100 yards in length - a number of Indians here to day to See the boat rise on the Bank-"

February 27, 1805

"Prepareing the Tools to make perogues all day - a feiw Indians visit us today, one the largest Indian I ever saw, & as large a man as ever I Saw, I commence a Map* of the Countrey on the Missouries & its waters." 

Map*  - Perhaps the original of the 1805 map, if that had not been started long before.

February 28, 1805

"but few Indians visit us to day  they are watching to catch the floating Buffalow which brake through the ice in Crossing, those people are fond of those animals and Catch great numbers every spring.