@section 2 {day} @section 3 {au} Clark @section 3 {dt} November 22, 1804 @section 3 {txc} 22nd of November Thursday 1804 a fine morning Dispatched a perogue and 5 Men under the Derection of Sergeant Pryor to the 2nd Village for 100 bushels of Corn in ears which Mr# Jessomme, let us have did not get more than 80 bushels ¬ I was allarmed about 10 oClock by the Sentinal, who informed that an Indian was about to Kill his wife in the interpeters fire about 60 yards below the works, I went down and Spoke to the fellow about the rash act which he was like to commit and forbid any act of the kind near the fort ¬ Some missunderstanding took place between this man & his wife about 8 days ago, and She came to this place, & Continued with the Squars of the interpeters, 2 days ago She returned to the Villg. in the evening of the Same day She came to the interpeters fire appearently much beat, & Stabed in 3 places ¬ We Detected that no man of this party have any intercourse with this woman under the penelty of Punishment ¬ he the Husband observed that one of our Serjeants Slept with his wife & if he wanted her he would give her to him, We derected the Serjeant Odway to give the man Some articles, at which time I told the Indian that I believed not one man of the party had touched his wife except the one he had given the use of her for a nite, in his own bed, no man of the party Should touch his Squar, or the wife of any Indian, nor did I believe they touch a woman if they knew her to be the wife of another man, and advised him to take his Squar home and live hapily together in future, ¬ at this time the Grand Chief of the nation arrived, & lecturd him, and they both went off apparently dis = The grand Chief continued all day a warm Day fair afternoon ¬ many Indian anickdotes one Chief & his familey Stay all night. =