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Show iOts receivetl fJ·om us the name of Pocasse or Hay creek, in honour of the chief of tbe second village. Above the Ricara island, the Missouri becomes na•·row and deeper, the sandbars being generally confined to the points; the current too ·is murh more gentle; the timber on the lowlands is also in much greater (]Uantitics, though the high grounds are still naked. We JH'ocecdcd on under a fine breeze from the southeast, and after making t>ighteen miles encamped on the north ncar a timhert.•d low }llain, after which we bad some rain and the evening was cold. The hunters killed one deer only. Sunday, i·ith. We set out in the rain which continued during the day. At five miles we came to a creek on the south, about fifteen yards wide, and named by us Piaheto or Eagle's Feather·, in bonout· of the third chief of the Ricaras. After dinnet• we stopped on a sandbar, and executed the sentence of a court martial which inflicted c01·poral punishment on one of the soldiers. This operation affected the Indian chief very sensibly, for he cried aloud during the punishment: we explained the offence and tbe reasons of it. He acknowledged that examples were necessary, and that he himself had given them by punishing with death; but his nation never whi{)ped even childr·cn fl'om their birth. After this we continued with the wind from the northeast, and at the distance of twelve miles, encamped in a cove of the southern bank. Immediately opposite our camp on the north side al'e the ruins of an ancient fortification, the g•·eat· er part of which is washed into the rivel': nor could we distinguish mOI~e than tl1at the waJis were eight ot• ten feet high. The evening is wet and disagreeable, and the l'iver 'vhich is somewhat wider than yesterday, continues to have an unusual quantity of timhet·. 'l'he country was level oo both sides in the mot·ning, but aftet·wat·ds we 11assed some black bluffs on the south. Montlay, 15th. We stopped at three miles on the north a little above a camp of Ricaras who are bunting, where Up the .Missouri. 169 we were visited by about thirty Indians. 1,hey eame over in their skin canot>s, bringing us meat. for which we returned them beads and fishhooks. About a mile higher we found another encampment of Ricaras on the south, consisting of eight lodges: here we again ate and exchanged a few presents. As we went we discerned numbers of other Indians on both sides of the river; and at about nine miles we came to a creek on the south, where we saw many high hills resembling a house with a slanting roof; and a little below the crt>ek an old village of the Sharha or (;hayenne Indians. The morning had h<'cn cloudy. but the evening became pleasant, the wind fa·om the northeast, and at sunset we halted, after coming ten miles over sevet·al sandbars and points, above a camp of' ten Ri(~a•·a lodges on the north side. We visited theh· camp, and smoked and cat with several of them; they all appeared kind and pleased with our attentious, and the fair sex received our men with more than hospitality. Y 01·k was here again an object of astonishment; the children would follow him constantly, and if he chanced to turn towards them, run with ga•eat tcrt·o~. The countr·y of to-day is generaiJy low and covc•·cd with timber on botb sides, though in the morning we pussed some barren hills on the south. . Tuesda~, 16th. At this camp the squaw who accompanied the chiefJcft us; two others were very anxious to 0'0 on .h b Wlt us. Just above our camp we passed a circular work or fort where the Sharha or Chayennes formerly Jived: and a sho1•t distance beyond, a creek which we called Chayenne cr·eek. At two miles is a willow island with a large sandbar on both sides above it, and a creek, both on the south, which we called Sohawcb, the Ricara name for girl; and two miles above a second creek, to which we gave the name of Chapawt, which means woman in the same language. Three miles further is an island situated in a bend to the north, about a mile and a half long, and eo• ered with eottonwood. At the lower .end ·of thii island |