@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} November 30, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 30th in the morning early a Indian Came to the river opposit & requsted to be brought over, that he had Some thing to Say from his nation we Sent for him, and after he had Smoked ¬ he Said he thought the river was frosted across here & expected to Cross on the ice = 7 or 8 Mandans out hunting in a S# W, Derection from this place about 8 Leagues, after they had made their hunt and on their return was attackted by a large Party of Seaux, one of the party a young Chief was Killed 2 wounded & 9 horses taken, the men who made their escape Say the one half of the party who attacked them was Panias ¬ = The two Panias who Came here a fiew days ago was imediately Sent home, for fear of their being put to death by the party Defeated = Two of the attacting party was Known to be Panies. The man who was killed mentioned that after he was wounded, that he had been at war & been wounded, "this day I shall die like a man before my Enimies,! tell my father that I died bravely, and do not greive for me ¬ " = 4 of the Big bellies who were Camped near thos is missing, and Searching for him in their Camps above ¬ no one Dare to go to the ground where the battle was for fear of the Sioux being noumerous. =