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Show Letvis and Clarke's Expedition tlemau, and when we proposed to him to purclmse a. small quantity of tohacco, to h<' paid for in St. l.~ouis, he vct•y readily fut·nisltetl evca·y man off ftc party 'vith as much as he could use d111·ing the t'f'St of the voyage, and insisted on our aCflCptiuf!; a lwl'l'eJ of flom·. 'J'h is last we found very agt'CCahle, allhouh'h we have still a liule flour whieh we hatl deposited at the moulla of'Mat·ia's •·ivt'l'. 'Vc could give in retm·o only alJout six bushels of t<H·u, which wa · all that we could spar·c. 'l'he 11ext IIHH'ning, 'J'hur· clay. 4 . "' e left l\fr. Ait·s about eight o'clock, and uftet· passing the Ui:.; Si011 x 1·iver. stopped at noon near Floyd's IJlufl: Ou a~t·emting t .. ,. hill Wl' fouud 1 hat Ow grave ol'Floyfl had lJf•en opened, ancl was now ha.lf' uncovered. We flllcd it np. and tiH•n eontinued (\own to out· old camp ncar the 1\laha villa;.;c. wiH·t't' all Olll' lm~~·agt·, whil~ h ht~d been wet by the •·ain o!'la~tui~hl, wa <·~pu ·e u to <ll·y. There is no gamt' ou the l'iVet· <'X<'Ppt wilt! ~('t'Rt' and peliean ·. Near l~'Joyd's ~t·avr a t'l' solltl' flous·i ~ hin~ hlatk wa I nut tl'f•e , which arc the first W<' havt• S<'t:n on our I'd una. At ni!-!,'ht we heard tlae •·cpoa·t of seH•t·al f.;UIIs in a dit·<·dion tow:u·ds the 1\-laha vilh11-;l', and s11ppus('d it to he the ~igual of f.he art•i,al ol' some ta·atlt·a·. But uot ml·ctiug him when we set out, the next mot·uing, 11's·illay, 5, we co ncluded that the fl1·ing was merely to anuouucc the rcl.m·u of the Mahas to the , iJlage. this lJcing tlw season at. whi<·h tlwy l'<'f.Ul'll home fa·om uuffaloc huntjug, tO take mli'C of tJ.l·it• C()l'll, IJcans and !HlUipkin • rl'hr J'iV<'I' is HOW HWI'C CI'CWkcd, f he ClU'l'ent HWI'C l'apid, and CJ'OWdt·d W itlJ. :,uag. and sawyel'S, and the UOttOIUS Oil both sidt·s Wl'll SII}Jpli •d with timuea·. At three o'clock we passoti the Ulucstouc b)ufr. where tho rivet· leaves the higblamh and mcatuk1·s thl'ough a Jow r·ich lwttom, and at night cucantllt'd. a l tet· making scvcnt.r-lhn~e miles. ~at unl.ty, G. 'l'h('l wiud coutinu ·d aheatl, but the mus. a H4'i.ot':-. "~t~ ~o tormenting Omt to l'Cmain was more unplca!: laut lh<m C\Ctl fu C\( 't<wcc, howc"Vct· slo\\ly, and we thet·e· Up the .Miss01wi. fore proece<led. N rar ihc l.~iU.le Sioux rivfr wo .u~et a h·_atlin"' boat belom;ingto J\'1r. Augustus ehatt•au, ot Ht. Lours, wit7a scvet·al men, on theit• way to t1·atle with the Ya.nktons at the 1·ivt~r Jaeqncs. 'Vc ohtain('d l'a·om them a gallon of wltiskry. and gave each or the Jmt·ly a tll·am. which is t.he ih·st spil'ituous liquor· any or thrm have tasted since the foua·th or .July 1805. After a·t·maining with them foa~ some time we went on to a sa.nclbat·. thi•·ty miles fa·om out• last encampment, whca·e we pas etl the ni~ht in l'Xpt·ctation oi' being joilll'd hy two or t.hc hnnters. llllt as tllCy did not come on, we set out n('xt. morning, Sunday. 7, lc•aving a eanot• \\ith five men, to wait for them, OUt hat} not gOI\(~ JnOI'C than (•ight miJCS~ when We ovct·took tltrm; we thercfol'c flt·cd a gun, which was a signal for tho men behind. whieh, as t]u~ clistancc in a clin~ct line was aboul a milr, they rl'adily hrard and soon join<'d us. A liU.ltl alJove the Soldiea·'s river we~ stopp<'d to dine on elk, of which we killt~d tht'f't>, ami at. nigl•t, after· makin,; fortyfoua · miles. c m•ampl'd on a sandbat·, whc•·c we hoped in vain to cst•ape f1·um the musqu toes. \V c thcrel'ore sci out eaa·ly the nt'xt moa·ning, Monday, 8, and stopped for a sho•·t time at the Council b}ufl's, to examine the situation of' lhc place, and WCl'e COilfit• mcd in out· lJl'li<•f' that it would be a vm·y digihlr ~t)Ot for a trading <'stabli ·hrncnt. Being anxious to t·each Otr J>lattc, we plied our ocu·s so well, that by night we had ma(le seven· ty eight miles, and landed at our old Pncampn~cnt at \VhitocaUhh camp, twehc milc·s abov<' thaf rivel'. \Ve had lwrc occasion cor 'ma•·k the wond(•t·ful t•vapol'a.tion ft·om the 1\-lissouJ• i, whh1h dot's not appl'<U' to eonca.iu more water·, nor is its channel ,, idea· than a.t tho distance of one thousand miles nraa·<·t· its soul'cr, although wit.hiu that. space it rcc<.~i,es ahout t wmdy l'ivea·s, some of them of considc•·aiJie wiclth, antl a gJ•eat numbc•· of ct't.'l'ks. 'J'his evaporation sct·m~. in fact, to ut· g1·eater now than when we as{·cnued the a·iver, fot· we al'c oiJligcd to t·cplcnish the inkstamJ eY('l'Y day witl1 fresh mli_, nine tenths of which must esca1•c by cva1wratiou. |