November 3, 1804
We Have began building our winter fort. In the cold weather I fond it interesting that the Mandans let there horses come into there house's. A french man showed up in our fort talking to Captain Lewis about being a translator. Captain Lewis was not impressed and said he already had one. The french man said that he could speak fluent Shoshone, and that he also had a young Indian wife that could speak it and help us in cooking off the land and navigating. Captain Lewis agreed even though he would have much rather just had the Indian girl Sacajawea then the french man.

Cameron Allen Randolph