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  Clark
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  October 21, 1804
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  21t of October Sunday 1804 a verry Cold night wind hard from the N# E# 
  Some rain in the night which feesed as it fell, at Day began to Snow and 
  Continued all the fore part of the day, at 1/4 of a mile passed the Mouth 
  of Chess~che tar (or Heart) River L# S# 38 yards wide, this river heads 
  near Turtle mountain with Knife River on this River is a Smothe Stone 
  which the Indians have great fath in & Consult the Stone on all great 
  occasions which they Say Marks or Simblems are left on the Stone of what 
  is to take place &c# an old mandan Village above the mouth of this 
  Little River, I saw a Single tree in the open Plains which the Mandans 
  formerly paid great Devotion to run Cords thro their flesh & tie 
  themselves to the tree to make them brave, passed an old Village on a 
  Small run on the S S# one on the bank L# and Camped, I Killed a fat 
  Buffalow this evening ¬ Little gun all my hunting 
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