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Show 406 Lewis and Clarke' 8 Exntdition & .1' , c. cache or deposit. For this purpose we select d bank of the river, three quarters of a mile b:lo: s::t on the and three men were set to dig it w'th . . e camp, b • J a scntmel 10 the . h oul·hood, who was ordered if the t' ne•g • I na ave~ were to stra l t aat way, to fire a signal f.g:r the workmen to d . gg 8 rate T . esist aud scpa- • owards evenmg the cache was com lett·d . being perceived by the Indians, and the packp . Without fot· deposit. ages prepared CHAPTER XVI. Contest between Drewyer and a Shoshonce-The fidelity and honour of that tribe-The ps.rty set out on their journey-The conduct of Camenhwait reproved, and himself reconciled-The easy parturition of the Shoshonee women- History of this nation-Their terror of the Pawkees-Their government and family economy in their treatment of their women-Their complaints of Spanish treachery--Description oftheit· weapons of warfare-Their curious mode of making a shield-The caparison of their horses-The dress of the men and of the women pat·ticuJarly described-Their mode of acquiring new names. Wednesday, August 2f. THE weather was very cold; the water which stood in the vessels exposed to the air being covere<l with ice a quarter of an inch thick: the ink freezes in the pen. and the low grounds are perfectly whitened with frost: after this the day proved excessively warm. The party were engaged in their usual occupations, and eompletetl twenty saddles with the necessary harness, all prepared to set off as soon as the Indians should arrive. Our two hunters who were despatched eal'ly in the morning have not returned, so that we were obliged to encroach on our pork and corn, which we consider as the last resource when our casual supplies of game fall. After dark we carried our baggage to the cache, and deposited what we thought too cumbrous to carry with us: a small assortment of medicines, and all the specimens of plants, seeds, and minerals, collected since leaving the falls of the Missouri. Late at night Drewyer, one of the hunters, returned with a fawn and a considerable quantity of Indian plunder, which he had taken by way of reprisal. While hunting this morning in the Shoshonee cove, he came suddenly upon an Indian camp, at which were an old man, a young one, three women, and a boy: they showed no surprise at the sight of him, and he therefore rode up to them, and after tw·ninij • |