6:43 AM rise, 12:41 PM solar noon, 6:38 PM set
3:44 PM set, 36% illumination
52° at sunrise, 86° at 4 PM
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Cruzatte, one of the boatmen, informed the captains that the Omahan prisoners in the village had overheard their captors saying that they intended to stop the boatmen from continuing upriver. Over the course of the day, the captains “showed as little signs of a knowledge of their intentions as possible.” The small flotilla stayed anchored in place all day while small groups of boatmen visited the village and the chiefs, their sons, and other men toured the keelboat. Near evening, the villagers again hosted a feast for the boatmen, followed by a dance until around midnight. Then, as a pirogue ferried boatmen and two Titonwanian leaders to the keelboat, it sliced through the anchor rope and set the keelboat adrift. Clark ordered all hands up and the boatmen frantically rowed the keelboat to shore, where they fastened its remaining rope to a stake on shore. The commotion caused most of the villager men to rush to the shore armed and ready to fight, which the captains interpreted as a hostile action. The villagers claimed they thought the unexpected noises were from an Omahan warparty and therefore rushed to repel them and to protect the boatmen.