6:44 AM rise, 12:41 PM solar noon, 6:37 PM set
1:08 AM rise, 4:16 PM set, 26% illumination
45° at sunrise, 80° at 4 PM
SE at sunrise, SE at 4 PM
6 miles
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After the excitement of the previous night, the boatmen started the morning using the pirogues to drag the river bottom in hopes of recovering the lost anchor. Their efforts were unsuccessful. Determined to continue upriver, they struggled to get the chiefs, including Black Buffalo and Partisan, who are on the keelboat, to go ashore. Once that was accomplished, a group of men held onto the anchor rope to prevent the boat’s departure. Lewis angrily ordered every boatman to get ready to fight. The chiefs asked for tobacco in exchange for their men releasing the rope, and the captains consented. Immediately, the boatmen shoved off the keelboat and, with the two pirogues, they proceeded upriver about four miles, where they stopped and fashioned two large stones into a makeshift anchor. Proceeding on, they stopped again when Buffalo Medicine waded into the river and implored them to do so. Inexplicably, the captains allowed him to board the keelboat. They sent his son, who may have been aboard the keelboat, back to the village to explain that the white flag on the mast meant peace if the Titonwanians stayed away, but the red flag on the mast meant the boatmen would fight if the Titonwanians impeded them in any way.