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Show dians. This man has been very se:rvieC'able to us, and his ,virc particnlal'ly useful amon~ th& Shoshon<'<.'s. Indeed, she has bol'ne win a a pat icncc t l'uly adminLhlt~, the fatigues of so long a I'OUL<'. incumbra·cd with the e]aaJ'g<' of an infant, who is evcu now only nineteen months old. 'Ve thet·ef'ore paid him his wages, amounting to five hundt•P-d dollat•s and thi•·ty- Ot~·<·c cents, induding lh<' pt·ice of a hm·se and a lodge l)tl1'chascd of' IJi m; and soon aft en' aa·ds drop}H•d down to tht villag<' of the Bigwhite, att<'ndrd on shore hy all the Indian chiefs who went to take l<'ave o{' him. We found him surr·omuled lJy his f1·iends. n ho sat in a circle smoking, while the~ women wel'e e~·ying. He immediat<·Jy sent his wiLe aucl son, with their· lJaggagc, on boal'd, aeeompanied by the int<'I'IH'<'tcr· and his wile, ~111d two ciJildr·t>n; and rb~>n after · distr·ibuting ~unong his ft·icruls some JW\\'drt· and ball, which we hnd ~iV<'n to him, and smoking a piJ>C with us, went with us to tiH· •·ivt•t· ~ide. 'J'he whole village crowded about us, and mauy of tlu• people wept aloud at the deJ•artur ·e of the chief. As captain Claa·kc was ~haking hands wjth the pl'incipal chid's or all the villages. they J•equested that he would sit with them one ruo01cnt longer. lleiug willing to gl'atit'y them, lac sloj>pc<l and oJ•tler·ed a pipe, afte1· smoking which, they infor·med him that when they Jir·st saw us, they did uot believe all that we then told them; ltut having now seen that our wOJ·ds were all true, they would cat·efully remember them, and foJJow our a£lvice; that he might teJl their ~t·eat father that the young men should remain at home and uot make war on any people cxce1,t in defcnc~ e of themselves. 'J'hcy reCJUCstccl him to tell the Ricaras to come and visit them without f't.-ar·, as they meant that nation no ha.rm! but were dcsiJ·ous oi'I>eace with them. On the Sioux, howcvct·, they hall no dependence, ami must kill them whenever they made war· tmrHes against their eounli'Y• Captaiu Clarke, in rt•ply, infor·med them that we had ncvur insisted on their not defending themselves, but requested onJy that they would not stt·iko those whoHl we had taken by flp tlte .)1iSS01Wi. the )1atl(1; tl1at WP. would nppa·i!;<' the- RicHras of fh<'ir fa·it,nd. Jy int<'ntions. and that, a1thour.;h W<' had not seen those of't~e Sioux with "hom they wP-rt' at wat·, wt· should relate tlwtr oonduc·t to thrir great fat he~·, who would take measures fol' protlurin~ a g<'m·ral pc.:acc amon~ a Blais t't'd childt·en. 'rhe l.)ot·f,!;nt' now rrqu<'St<'fl tlmt we would take good cnr~ of this ,1hicf, who woulrl report wlaatevN· t.laeir· gl'c-at father should sav; and the council bring then lH'oken up, w took leave witi1 a salute from a ~un, and t hrn }WOCCl'tlrd. On re~tl'hing fort l\1anc1an. we found a few pidu•t s standing on the 1·ivrr side, but all the houses <'xccpt one. had b<'en but·nt by an arcidt~ntal fil·c. At th<' distant'e or cightc<·n miles we readH•d the old Rimwa village, where we cncarnprd on tbe southw(~St sid(•, tlw wind being too violent. and the waves too high to pt.•rmit us to go nny fuJ·thct·. The same cause pt·cvcntcd us fr·om setting out before eight o'clock th~: next day, Monday, 18. Soon aftrt• \'t'C rmbal'l~cd, an Indian came runnin•" down to the IJeaeh, who appeat·etl ve•·y anxious to speak ~0 us. \\re went ashot•c, and rountt it was the ~n·othel' of the Bigwhitr, who wa~ encampe-d at no gt·eat dt~tance, and hcal'ing of our d<'pat·ture, cam<' to take leave of the ohief. 'rhc lligwhitc gave l1im a pai•· or leggin~s. and they ~eparatcd in a most affectionate manne•·: and we th(.'n cun ~ tinned t110ugh the wind and wavt·s wCI'C ~till high. The Indian <'hicf seems quite sathlied with his treatnH'n', and duJ ·ing the whole of his time \\as employed in pointing ~ut f l M ' the ancient monuments o t w an< an.S ' or in rda.tmg theit• t•·aditions. At h•ngth, after malc.ing forty miles, ~· eucampcd on the nortlwa!)t s·u 1 e , oppos,·h• c a11 old Mandan vil, lage, aml below the month ol' Claesshetah river. rrucsday, 19. The wind was so vioh•ut 0Ja( we_ wm·e ~ot hlc to proceed until foul' in the aft.c•·noon, durmg wlueh time the hunters killed fom· elk and 1 wchrc deer. \\'e then went on for ten milc~t, and c~me fo oo a santUtal'. 'l'lie J'ain |