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Show :;& bcratcul' (the deliverer) rose, ami S{lOkc at some length, approving what we had said, and promising to follow our ad. 'fice: "I sec before me," said he," my great father's two sons. You sec me, and the 1·est of our chiefs and warriors. 'V care very poor; we have neither powder nor ball, not• knives; and our women and childt·en at the village have no clothes. I wish that as my brothers have given me a flag and a medal, they would give something to those poor peo1>le, or let them stop and trade with the first boat whirh comes up the river. I will bring chiefs of tlte Pawnees and ~lab as together, and make peace between them; but it is better that I should do it than my great fathe1·'s sons, for they will listen to me more readily. I will also take some chiefs to your country in the spt·ing; but hcfot·c that time I eannot leave home. I went formerly to the English, and they gave me a medal and some clothes: when I went to the Spanish they gave me a medal, but nothing to keel) it t'1·om my skin; but now you give mes medal am\ clothes. But still we at·c }lOOl'; and I wish, bro· thet·s, you would give us something for our squaws." 'Vhcn he sat down, Mahtoree, or \Vhite Ct·ane, rose: "I have listened," saitl he, "'to what our father's words were yesterday; and I am, to-day, glad to see lww you have dressed our old chief. I am a young man, and do not wish to tako much: my fathers have made me a chief: I had much sense befot·e, but now I thiuk 1 have more than ever. What the old chief has declared I will confit·m, and do whatever he and you },lease: lmt I wish that you would take pity on. us, for we-nr·c vea·y poor." Another chief, called Pawnawneahpahbc, tlwn said: "I am a young man, and know but little: 1 cannot speak well; hut I have listened to what you have told the old chief. and will do wha.levet· you agree." 'rbe same sentiments were theu repeated by Aweawccba· che. We were surprised at finding that the fh·st of these titles means" Struck by the Pawnee," and was occasioned by soJDt Up the Missouri. S9 blow 'vhil'la the chief had a·eccived in battl<', from one of the Pawnee ta·ibe. The second is, in English," Half Man," which ~eems a singular name fot· a watTior, till it was explained to ha,·e its ot·igin, pt•ohably, in the modesty of the chief.· who, on heing told of his exploits, would say, "I am no war~ r.io&·: I am only half a man." The other cl1icfs spoke very httle; hut after they had finished, one of the warriors tlcliTcr ·ed a. speech, in which he dt•clar·cd he would support then '1, . ), hey pr·ormsrd to make ptmee with the Ottoes and Missou-l'is. the only nations with whom they ar·e at wa1•• All these hal'angues conc]uded hy tlcscr·ibing the distress of the na~ tion: they begged us to have pity on them: to st>nd them traders: that thl'y wanted powder ami ball; and seemed anxious that we should supply them with some of their gt·eat r _ th~r:s milk, the name by which they distinguish aa·de:t spii'Jts. We then gave some tobacto to caelt of the chiefs an~ a. cel'tificate to two of tlle war·l'io1·s who attc:•nded th; clucf. 'Ve p•·evailed on 1\'l•·· Dul'ion to remain here, and accompany as many of the Sioux chiefs as he coultl coll(~ct, down to the seat of government. We also gave his son a flag, some clothes, and pt·ovisioos, with d;rcctions to br·ing about a peace between the sui·r·oundiug tl'ihcs, and to convey some of theh· chiefs to sec the pa·esident. In the cvcninno t~ey left us, and eneao•pctl on the opposite hank, af.lcompa~ med by the ~wo llul'ions. Dur·ing the cveuing ami night we had much ram, and ol>served that the r·iveP l'iscs a little. The Indians, who have just left us, a!'c the Yanktons, a tl·ihc of the great nation of Sioux. 'rhese Yank tons ~u·c about two hundred meu in numbe1·; and inhabit the Jacques, ncsmoines,. and Sioux r·ivcrs. To person they aa·e stout, well l>~'Oportro? ed, and have a certain ail' ol' dignity and l>oldness. In their dress they differ· nothing f1•om tbe oLhel' hands of the nation whom we saw, and will desct·ilJe aftcr·w~u·ds: they are fond of decorations, and use paint, and Jlo•·cupine <juills, and feathet·s. Some of them wore a kiud of no<•klace of white bear's claws, tht·ec inches long, aud clost~ly sh·tmg |