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Show 08 bar making out from tbc upper end of this island; our jour~ ney to-day being twelve miles. Friday, October 5. The weather was very. cold: yeste~- da y even·m g a~ nd this morning there was a wh1te .f rost. 'Vt sailed along the highlands on the north side, passm~ a small k tl Outh between three and four miles. At erec on 1c s ' . seven 0 ' c1 o ck "'e heard some , -ells and saw three I ndJans of n ' J the Teton band, who asked us to come on shore and begged for some tobaeco. to all which we gave the same answer as hitherto. At eig11t miles we reached a small creek on the north. At fourt~en we passed an island on the south,. covered with wild rye, ami at the bead a large creek comes m fr?m the south, which we named Wbitebrant creek, fr·om seemg several white ln·ants among flocks of daa·k-coloured ones. At the distance of twenty miles we came to on a sandbar towards the north side of the river, with a willow island op· posite. the hills or bluffs come to the banks of the rher on both ~id~s, hut are not so high as they ar~ below: the river itself however continues of the same w1dth, and the sandbars are quite as numerous. 'l'be soil of the banks is dark coloured, and many or the bluffs have the appearance of being on fire. Our game this day was a deer, a prairie wolf, and some goats out of a flock that was swimming acros!i the river. Saturday, October 6. The morning was still cold, the wind being from tlle north. At eight miles we came t~J a willow island on the north, opposite a point of timber, where there are many large stone3 near the middle of the river, which seem to have been washed from the hills and higll plains on both sides, or driven from a distance down the stream. At twelve miles we halted for dinner at a village which we suppose to have belonged to the Ricaras: it is situated in a low plain on t11e river, and consists of about eighty lodges, of an octagon t'ormt neatly covered with earth, placed as close to each othet• as possiblet and picketed round. The skin ca· noes, mats, buckets, and articles of furniture found iB th~ Up the ~lissouri. 99 l odges, induce us to suppose that it bad been left in the spring. We found th1·ee diffct•cnt sorts of squashes growing in the village; we also killed an elk ncar it, and saw two wolves. On leaving the village the river became shallow, and after searching a long time for the main channel, which was conaealed among sandbars, we at last dt·agged the boat over one of them rather than go back thr·ee miles for the deepest channel. At fourteen and a half miles we stopped for the night on a sandbar, opposite a creek on the north, called Otter er·eek, twenty-two yards in width, and containing more water than is common for creeks of that size. The sides of the rivea· during the day are variegated with high bluffs and low timbered grounds on the banks: the I:iver is ve1·y much obstructed by sandbars. 'Ve saw geese, swan, br·ants and ducks of different kinds on the sandbars, and on shore numbers of tl1e prairie hen; the magpie too is very common, but the gulls and plove1~, which we saw in such numbet•s below, are now '.{uite rare. Sunday, October 7. 'I'here was frost again last evening, and this morning was cloudy and attended with rain. At t~o miles we came to the mouth of a rh·cr; called uy the ll!caras, Sawawkawna, or P01·k 1·iver; the pat•ty who cxa. mined it for about tb1·ee miles up, say that its current is gentle, and that it does not seem to throw out much sand. Its sout·ces are in the first range of the Black mountains, and though it has now only water of twenty yat·ds width, yet when full it occu1,ies ninety. Just below the mouth is another ' 'illage or wintering camp of the· Ricat·as, com11oscd of about sixty lodges, built in tbe same form as tuose passed yesterdayt with willow and straw mats, baskets aud bufraJoeskin canoes remaining entil·e in the camp. "\Vc proceeded under a gent1e breeze from the southwest: at ten o'clock we saw two Indians on the north side, who told us they were a part of the lodge of rrartongawaka, or Buffaloe Mc.•dicine the Teton ebiefwhom we had seen on the twenty-fif'lh, tha; they were on the way to the Ricatas, and begged us for some- |