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Show .. J6Z Lewis und Cla1·ke's Expedition fot• three days hunted along the banks and plains, and reached the fort in tpe evening of the twelfth much fatigued, having walked thit·ty miles that day on the ice and through the snow in many places knee deep, the moccasins too bein~ nearly worn out: the only game which they saw besides what i~ mentioned, was some growse on the sandbars in the river. Thursday14. Last night the snow fell three inches deep; the day was, however, fine. Four men wet·e despatched wHh sleds and three horses to bring up the meat which had been collected by the hunters. They returned Jwwever, with intelligence that about twenty-one miles below the fort a party of upwards of one hundred men, whom they supposed to be Sioux, rushed on them, cut the traces of the sleds, and. ... carried off two of the horses, the third being given up by intercession of an Indian who seemed to possess some authority over them; they also took away two of the men's lmifes, and a tomahawk, which last however they returned. 'Ve sent up to the Mandans to inform them of it, and tg know whether any of them would join a party which intended to pursue the robbers in the morning. About twelve o'clock two of their chiefs came down and said that all their young men were out hunting, and that there were few guns in the village. Several Indians however, at•med some with bows and arrows, some with spears and battle-axes, and twC) with fusils, accompanied captain Lewis, who set out, Friday 15, at sum·ise with twenty-four men. 'l'bc morn· ing was fine and cool, the thermometer being at 16° below o. In the course of the day one of the Mandan chiefs returned from captain Lewis's party, his eye-sight having become so bad that he could not proceed. At this season or the year the reflexion from the ice and snow is so intense as to occasion almost total blindness. This complaint is very common, and the general remedy is to sweat the part affected by holding the face over a hot stone, and receivin~ the fumes f1·om snow thrown on it. A large red fox was kil· led to-day. 16S Saturday 16. The morning was warm, mercury at 32° ..... hove O, the weather cloudy: several of the Indians who went with captain Lewis returned, as did also one of our men, whose feet had been frostbitten. Sunday 17. The weather continued as yesterday, though .in the afternoon it became fair. Shotawhorora and his son came to see us, with about thirty pounds of dried buffaloe meat and some tallow. Monday 18. The morning was cloudy with some snow, but in the latter part of the day it cleared up. M .... ~{'Kenzie who had spent yesterday at the fort now left us. Our stock of meat is exhausted, so that we must confine ourselves to vegetable diet, at least till the return of the party: for this, however, we are at no loss, since both on this and the following day, Tuesday 19, our blacksmith got large quantities of corn from the Indians who came in great numbers to sec us. The weather was fait· and warm, the wind from tliC south. 'Vednesday, 20th. The day was delightfully fine; the mercury being at sunrise 2° and in the course of the day 2.2° above o, the wind southerly. Kagobami came down to see us early: bis village is afH.icted by the death of one of their eldest men, who from his account to us must have seen one hundred and twenty winters. Just as l1e was dying. he requested bis grandchildren to dress him in his best robe when he was dead, and then carry him on a hill and seat him on a stone, with his face down the river towat·ds theil' old villages, that he might go straight to his brother who had passed before him to the ancient village under gr·ound. \Ve have seen a number of ~Iandans who have lived to a great age; chiefly howeYer the men, wlwse robust exet•eises fortify the body, while the laborious occupations of the women shorten their existence. 'l"'hursday 21. 'Ve had a continuation of the same pleasant weather. Ohecnaw and Shahaka came down to see us, anti nu•ntionctl 1hat ~;everal or th<'ir countr.-v men had |