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Show Lewis mul Clurlcc's Expedition 1'cmainc<1 at his village. 'Ve removed there, and having utadc a fh·c, and cooked a supper of hoa·sc-bccf and roots, collected all the distinguished men present, and spent the evcniug in explaining who we were, the ol1jccts of our journey, and !;ivin~ t tl . . . . , f b answers o lCH' mquu·ws. '1 o each o the chid's, Tunnaehc-moor. oolt, and liohastiiJpiJp, we gave a small medal, cxj> lainiug their use and impm·tancc, as honorat•y distinctions both aruong the whites and rt•d mcu. Ou1· men al'e delighted at once mot·e having made a hc~wty meal. 'l'Jwy I1are gcncra.lly bet·n in the habit of c•·owding the l10uses of the lmlia.ns, aud cudeavoul'ing to pu1·chase p1·ovjsions 011 the ue!,t tc•·ms they could; f'm· the inhospitalify or the t~ouuiry was such, th~:t in the extreme of hunge•· they wet·c ol'tcn obJig,·d to h·eat the natives with but little cm·cmouy, but tJ1is the '1\..,.istedlmit· had told us was disa~rccable. J?imling that these people arc so kind and liberal, we ordel'ed om· men to tt·eat them with great respect and not to throng round their fil'cs, so that they now agree pc1·fcetly well togcOlCt'. After out· council, the Indians felt no dis1wsi tion to t•etii·e, and our tent was crowded with them all night. The nc.xl mot·ning, Sunday 11, we arose eal'ly and l,..cakfastrd again 011 hot·sc-flcsh. This village ot'Tuuuachcmootoolt, is in fact oull a single house, one hundred and fifty feet loug·, built at'tc~· the (;Iwpunnish fashion, with sticks, stt·aw, and dl'icd grass. lt contains twenty- four fh·cs, about double that number of t~unilies, and might IJea·haps mustt•t• one Jaunurcd 1iu·htinP" '11 b ~ men. lC usual outhouse, ot· t•e(iring hut fut• females, is uot omitted. rl'hcit• chief subsi!:,tence is l'OOls, and the nohc ma•le by the women in JWunding them, gives the hccu·c•· tlw i~ea of a nail factory. Yet, notwithstanding so many famihes arc crowded together, the Chopunnisu al'e much moa·c cleanly in theit· persons and habitations, than any people we have met since we left the OUocs on the river Pla.ttc. I~ the course of the morning, a chief uamcd Yoompahka~ tim, a Stout l)OOd looking man, of al.wut fort~ ye~trs of ~gt>, Up the .Jllissou1·i, ·who hmllost his left eye, arrived ft·om his ' 'illagc on the south side ofllcwis's river. \V c gave him a small nwdaJ? and finding that there were now lll'Csent the Itrin<:ipal chiefs of the Chopunnish nation, 'funnachemootoolt (the Brok•marm) Neeshncpahkecook, Yoompahkatim, a.llfl Ilohastilpilp9 whose rank is iu t.hc order they arc mentioned, we thought this a favourable monwnt to explain to them the intentions ol' our government. \V e thereto•·~ eollcl'l N1 f he chiefs and wanio1· ·, aml having lh·a,,n a map of the rt•lative situation of ou1· countt·y, on a mat, with a \)iCCl~ of coal, detailed the natut·c nml power of the American nation, its dt•sirc to p1·c ·cnrc hal'mony lu·twccn all its t•cd hl'ethrru, and its in- 1cntion or cstai)lishing tradinh houses fol' tht'it• relic{' and 'iuppol't. It was not without oimeuhy. nOI' tilJ aftel' nearly halt' the day was spent, that we wcl'c a hie to convey all this information to the ' hopunnish, much of whith might have been lost or distm·tctl, in its cit·cuitous •·oute tl11·ough a va ~ ricty of languages; fo&· in the fil' st place. we spok" in Eng lish to one of out' men, who tl'amsla.tcd it into Ft·eneh to Vtmboneau; he intct•tn·ctcd it to his wife in the ~linuctarrc language, and she then put it into Shoslwnee, and the young Shoshonec pt·isoncJ' explained it ~o the Chopuunish in tln'il' own dialect. At last we succeeded in communicating the jmp••cssion they wished, and then ~uljom·m'd the council; after which we amused them by sho\\ in~ the woutlcrs of the compass, the spy-glass, the ma~nct, the watch aml ait·-gun_. ('a.ch of whieh attt·actcd its shm·c of atlmi•·ation. 'l'hcy said that al'tcr we had h·ft the 1\linnctal'ecs last au1umu, three young Chopunni~!J ha.d gone ovct· t.o that n;:ttion, who had mentioned our Yisit and the e:xtranrdiua1·y at·ticles we had 'vilh us, but tlu.•y placed no eonfldel!CC in it until now. Among othc&· pt'l'sons present. was a) outh, son or the Chu~ punnish chief, of much coo idcration, killed uot lung since by the l\1innl'ta.•·ecs of Fort de l'•·airie. As ::>·~on as the t•ouncil was over, he brought a n •ry fine mm·c with a. tolt, ~mtl bcgge'l ll'i fo arc·t~pt them as a Jncor tJmt lH~ mcr~•nt fo YOT., lT. 0 0 |