The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online February 3, 1805 2004 University of Nebraska Press and University of Nebraska Libraries–Electronic Text Center Lincoln, Nebraska
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Meriwether Lewis William Clark Gary E. Moulton Thomas W. Dunlay, Assistant Editor The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 3 August 25, 1804–April 6, 1805 University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London 1987 284-285 John Ordway Charles Floyd Gary E. Moulton The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 9 The Journals of John Ordway and Charles Floyd University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London 1995 112 Joseph Whitehouse Gary E. Moulton The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Volume 11 The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804–April 2, 1806 University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London 1997 123

47.2893 -101.3295 The company backtracks to the site of Fort Mandan, between the first and second villages they came across. About 14 miles west of Washburn, ND. They remained here for the winter and set out again on 1805-04-07 Journals Journal Entries 2004-04-01 Laura WeaklyInitial creation 2016-010-06 Brian Pytlik Zillig Converted from P4 to P5. 2016-09-26 Karin DalzielAdded Geo Information from spreadsheet February 3, 1805

Clark 3rd of February Sunday 1805.

a fine day; the blacksmith again commences his opperations.    we were visited by but few of the natives today.    the situation of our boat and perogues is now allarming, they are firmly inclosed in the Ice and almost covered with snow. The ice which incloses them lyes in several stratas of unequal thicknesses which are seperated by streams of water.    this peculiarly unfortunate because so soon as we cut through the first strata of ice the water rushes up and rises as high as the upper surface of the ice and thus creates such a debth of water as 〈had〉 renders it impracticable to cut away the lower strata which appears firmly attatched to, and confining the bottom of the vessels.    the instruments we have hitherto used has been the ax only, with which, we have made several attempts that proved unsuccessfull from the cause above mentioned.    we then determined to attempt freeing them from the ice by means of boiling water which we purposed heating in the vessels by means of hot stones, but this expedient proved also fruitless, as every species of stone which we could procure in the neighbourhood partook so much of the calcarious genus that they burst into small particles on being exposed to the heat of the fire.    we now determined as the dernier resort to prepare a parsel of Iron spikes and attatch them to the end of small poles of convenient length and endeavour by means of them to free the vessels from the ice.    we have already prepared a large rope of Elk-skin and a windless by means of which we have no doubt of being able to draw the boat on the bank provided we can free from the ice.—

Clark

3rd of February 1805    our provisions of meat being nearly exorsted I concluded to Decend the River on the Ice & hunt, I Set out with about 16 men 3 horses & 2 Slays    Descended nearly 60 miles Killed & loaded the horses back, & made 2 pens which we filed with meat, & returned on the 13th    we Killed 40 Deer, 3 Bulls 19 Elk, maney So meager that they were unfit for use

Ordway

Sunday 3rd Feby. 1805.    clear & cold. Some men went out a Short distance to hunt.    the Game is Scarce.    they Shortly returned without killing any thing.—

Whitehouse

Sunday February 3d    This day we had Clear cold weather, nothing of consequence happened at the Fort worth mentioning.—

Clark was absent from Fort Mandan from February 4–13, during which time Lewis kept daily entries in Codex C. Clark's Field Notes entry for February 3 (next) seems to have been written after his return; he summarized the trip in Codex C in brief entries covering the ten days, perhaps from some sort of brief notes kept on the trip, which have not been found. Lewis's writing of lengthy entries in Clark's journal during the latter's absence may indicate that Lewis was keeping no daily journal of his own during the period; otherwise, Clark could have copied Lewis's journal on his return, a practice he later picked up. See the Introduction. When rocks containing calcium carbonate are heated the CO2 is driven off, leaving a powder of CaO. Trapped moisture when heated to steam will also cause rocks to break.