The Journals of Lewis & Clark: February 1, 1805

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
January 31, 1805
February 2, 1805

February 1, 1805

1st of February Friday 1805

a cold windey Day our hunters returnd. haveing killed only one Deer, a war Chief of the Me ne tar ras Came with Some Corn requested to have a War hatchet made, & requested to be allowed to go to war against the Souis & Ricarres who had Killed a mandan Some time past- we refused, and gave reassons, which he verry readily assented to, and promised to open his ears to all we Said this man is young and named (Seeing Snake Mar-book, She-ah-O-ke-ah) this mans woman Set out & he prosued her, in the evening

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