On August 3 Lewis and Clark held a council with the Oto and Missouria Indians at a site they named "Council Bluff," near present Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, the first of many councils on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. After the council, the explorers moved upriver and camped south of today's community of Blair, and Clark's journal noted the merits of "Council Bluff" as a location for "a Trading establishment & fortification." In 1819 the army established Fort Atkinson. From the Indians and "Mr. Faufong, the interpeter," the party learned that Santa Fe was a 25-day journey away. On August 4 the party camped at a site north of Blair. Clark was concerned over the disappearance of Private Moses B. Reed, who had asked permission to return to the previous night's camp to get a knife he had left behind, but used it as a pretext to desert; he was captured two weeks later and dishonorably discharged from the army.