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Show U1J the Missouri. to convey off tbc rain: tlw dh·ection of all of them is cast and west, the door being on the eastern side, and partially stopped with wide boaa·ds decorated with 1·udc pictm·es of men and other animals. On entering w~ fou.nd in some of them fout· dmtd bodies. carefully 'Vl'appcd in skins, tied with cords of ~rass and bark, lying on a mat in a diJ'(• etion cast and wt•st: the other vaults contained ouly lhuws, which were in somo or them piled to the height of four feet: on the tops of the vaults, and on poles attached to thc·m, bung brass kettles and f1·ying-pam~ with holes in their hottoms, baskets, bowls, sea-shells, skins, pieces of cloth, hair, bngs or trinkets and small bones, the offerings of ft·icrul~hip or alfcction, wbich have been saved by a pious veneration from the ferocity of war, or the mol'e dange•·ous temptations of individual gain: the whole of the walls as well as the dool' were dccot'at(•d with strange figures cut and J)aintcd on them; and besides these were scvct·al wooden imag(~ of men, some of them so old and decayed as to hs.vc almost lost their shape. " 'hich wca·c all placed against tho sides of the vaults. These images, as well as those in the houses we have lately seen, do not appear to be at all the objects of adoration: in this place they were most probauly intendell as resemblances of those whose decease they indicate; and when we observe them in houses, they occupy tho most conSilicuous part; but a1·c trcatctl more like ornaments than objects of worship. Ncar the vaults which arc stand· ing, arc the t·cmains of' others on the f;l'Ound completely rotted and covered with moss; and as they m·c formed of the most durable pine and cedar timber, there is cvc•·y appearance, that fo1· a vcr•y long scl'ics of years this rrtil'cd SJ)Ot ltas been the depository f'm· the [udians near this place. After examining this place captain Clarlw went on, and found the river as before stt·ewcd with large r·ocks, a~ainst which the water ran with great t•apidity. Just below tlw vaults the mountain, which is but low on the right side, leaves the a·ivCl·, and is succeeded by au open stony level, which extend•· down the |