10 March: In the morning, calm, overcast, moderately cold. At seven thirty, 16 1/2°F [−8.6°C]. Wind moderately strong out of the east. The horizon was gray and foggy; [there was] hoarfrost on the forest. Early they saw a schähä́ckä near the fort. Dreidoppel went hunting. Soon after, Mató-Tópe and the Arikara came, [whose drawing] was completed in the afternoon by three o’clock.

About ten o’clock most of the Mandans went buffalo hunting; they will likely stay [out] fourteen days to prepare dried meat (such a hunting expedition is called kánna déhusch). Another party went to the other side of the Missouri. The departure—singly, by twos, threes, [and] fours—of women, children, horses, [and] travois with dogs lasted until about noon, because Indians never leave together. At twelve o’clock, 27°F [−2.8°C]. Later it thawed a little where the [frigid?] air did not hit. Dreidoppel shot nothing but saw a white rabbit and a schähä́äckä. In the afternoon the Indians did not bother us. It was rather pleasant; almost no wind but [a] cloudy sky. Two of Picotte’s people arrived with letters and a dogsled with some dried meat. One of them was snowblind and led by the other man with a stick. Evening calm, dark, moderately cold. Kähka-Chamahän from Ruhptare was at Kipp’s.