@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} November 5, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 5th November Monday 1804 I rose verry early and commenced raising the 2 range of Huts the timber large and heavy all to Carry on Hand Sticks, Cotton wood & Elm Som ash Small, our Situation Sandy, great numbers of Indians pass to and from hunting a Camp of Mandans, A fiew miles below us Cought within two days 100 Goat, by Driveing them in a Strong pen, derected by a Bush fence widening from the pen &c# &#. the Greater part of this day Cloudy, wind moderate from the N# W# I have the Rhumitism verry bad, Cap Lewis writeing all Day ¬ we are told by our interpeter that 4 Ossiniboin Indians, have arrived at the Camps of the Gross Venters & 50 Lodges are Comeing =