@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} October 22, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 22nd of October 1804 last night at about 1 oClock I was violently attacked with Rhumetism in my neck, which was so violently I could not move, Cap L# applied a hot Stone raped in flannel which gave temperry ease, we passed a War party of Tetons on their way as we Supposed to the Mandans of 12 men on the L# S# we gave them nothing and refused to put them across the river, passed 2 old Villages at the mouth of a large Creek L# S and a Small Island at the head of which is a bad place, an old Village on the S# S# and the upper of the 6 Villages the Mandans occupied about 25 years ago this village was entirely cut off by the Sioux & one of the others nearly, the Small Pox distroyed great Numbers =