@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} October 16, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 16th of October Tuesday 1804 Some rain this morning 2 Squars verry anxious to accompany us we Set out with our Chief on Board by name Ar ke tar nar shar (or Chief of the Town) a little above our Camp on the L# S# passed an old Shyenne Village, which appears to have been Serounded with a wall of earth; this is the retreat & first Stand of this nation after being reduced by the Sioux and drove from their Countrey on the heads of red River of L Winipic where they Cultivated the landspassed a Creek I call So~harch or Girl Creek L# S# 2 miles higher passed Woman Crreek or Char~parts passed an Island Situated in a bend to the S# S# at the lower point of this Island a Creek comes in Called Kee~tooth = Sar~kar~nar ¬ or the place of Beaver above the Island a Small River on the Same S# Side Called War~re~Con nee Elk shed their horns, this river is 35 yards wide & heads near the River au Jacque, Carp Island wind hard a head from the N W# Saw great numbers of goats or Antelope on Shore, Capt Lewis one man & the Ricara Chief walked on Shore, in the evening I discovered a number of Indians on each Side and goats in the river or Swiming & on Sand bars, when I came near Saw the boys in the water Swiming amongst the goats & Killing them with Sticks, and then hauling them to the Shore those on Shore Kept them in the water, I saw 58 Killed in this way and on the Shore, the hunter with Cap Lewis Shot 3 goats I came too and Camped above the Ricara Camp on the L# S# Several Indians visited us duereing the night Some with meat, Sang and were merry all night. =