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Show 36-t L ewis antl Vlm·kc's E<t:pedilimt shouldet• and clasping Lis tJack. applJing at tllf.' same time their left cheek to his, and fn'qnently ,.o<·if'el'ating ah hie! ah hie! " I am much pleasrd. I am much r~joieed .. , The lvbolc body of wart•iors now carne for,\ard, and our mcn 1·cceivetl the caresses, and no small share of the g1·rase and paint of thcit· new ft•it•uds. Aftet· tl1is fa·atcrnal embrace, of which the moti vc was mueh mot•c agreeable than the manneJ•, captain Lewis lighted a pipe and otfe1·ed it to the Indians \Vho bad now srated themselves in a circle around the Jlarty. But before they would t•eceive this mark of friendship they pulled off theh· moccasins, a custom as we afterwards learnt, which indicates the sacred sincerity of their Jlrofessions when they smoke with a stranger, and which impre· cates on themselves the miscrYt of going barefoot forever if t~ey are faithless to their words, a penalty by no means bght to those who rove ovm~ the thorny plains of their coun· try. It is not unworthy to remark the analogy which some of the customs of those wild children of the wilderness bear to th~se recot·ded in holy writ. Moses is admonisht·<1 to j>Uil off Ius shoes, for the place on which he stood was holy ground. 'Vhy this was enjoined as an act of peculiat~ reverence; whether it was from the circumstance that in the a1·itl region in which the patriarch then resided, it was decu~ed a test of the sincerity of' devotion to walk upon the bu~·m~g ~auds barefooted, in some measure analogous to the {lams .Inlhcted by the prit:ldy pear, docs not a{> pear. After smoking a few I,i),es, some trHJiug }>resents were distributed amo~gst them, with \\ hich they sl'emed very much pleased, p~rhculady with the blue heads and the Yct·million. Capt~ I~l L ewis then informed the cJJief that the object of his VISit was fr·iendly, ami should be explained as soon as be reached their camp; but that in the meantime as the sun was opp ress1· vc, an d no water ncar, he wished to go Hwrc as 80011 as possible. 'Jihey now llUt on theit· moccasins, and the i. r c hI' c1 '' whose name was Camcah\\ ait, made a short speech to tho warriors. Captain Lewis then gave him th~ Up the Missouri. 36!i ll,H_. ,vhich he informed him was among white melt the em- "'b' b . blem of peace, ami now that he had received it was to e 111 future the r>ontl or union between them. 'fhe chief then moved on, oul' party lollowed him, and the rest of the warriOI ·s in a squadt·on, brought up the rca.r. After marching a mile t hey were halted by the chief, who made a serond harangue, on whicl1 six or eight young men rode forward to theil' camp, and no furtluw regularity was observed in the order or mm·ch. At the distance of four miles fJ•om whel'e they bad fi•·st met, they l'eachcd the Indian camp, which was in a handsome level meadow on the bank of the river. }-Jere they were introduced into an old leathern lodge which the young men who had been sent from the party had fitted U}> for thcit· reception. After being seated on gt•een boughs aml antelOJlC skins, one of the warriors }lUlled up the g •·ass in the centr·c of the lodge so as to form a vacant cit·cJe of two reet diameter, in which he kindled a fire. 'l'lw t•hief then p1•oduced his pipe and tobacco, the warriors all !lulled offtbeit· moccasins, and out· p~trty wa requested to take otr t hci1• own. 'This b •ingdonc, the chief lighted his Jlipe at the fire within the magie circle, and then rctrcatiug from it began a speech sevcrnl minutes long, at the em] of which he pointed the stem towards the four car<liual points or the heavens, beginning with the east and concluding wit.h the uorlh. Arter this ceremony he pt·esented the stem in the same way to ca}Jtain Lewis, who supposing it an invif ation to smol·c, 1mt out his hand to receive the ])ipc. hut the <•hief drew it back, and eontinued to repeat the same offer three times, after which he {JOinted the stem first to the heaven , then to the eentt·e of the little circle, took three whiffs himself, and 1wescnted it again to captain Lewis. }"inding that this last offer was in good eal•nest, he smoked a little, the pipe was then held to each of the white men, and after they had taken a few whifts was given to the warriors. This pipe was made of' a dense transparent green stone, vcPy highly polished, about two and an half inches long, aud of an |