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Show JOUHN.\L OF A \ ·oYAGE 214b No'vcmbcr, Sunday.-Took Miller and Boley ancl went in pursuit of bufEllo. Came up with .-onle aboL!t 10 o'clock. In the afternoon woundcu one. Pursued th~m until night, and encamped on the ~ide of a swamp. Thawing. 2.5tb Novcmln'r, Monday.-Commcnccd again the pursuit of the bufblo, and continued till 11 o'clock, when I gave up the chase. Arrived at the camp about sun down, hungry and weary, having cat nothing since we left it. My rifie was too small a ball to kill butblo : the balls should not be more than thirty to the pound :-an ounce ball would be still preferable, and the animal should be hunted on horse-back. I think that, in the prairies of this country, the bow and arrow could be used to more advantage than the gun; for you might ride inunl'diatcly <1long side, atlll strike then1 where you pleased, leaving them to proceed after otht'rs. 'l'hawi11g. 26tb iVovcmbcr, Tucsday.-Proceeded up the river. fhe ice getting very rotten, the rneu fell through several times. Thawing. Distance 5 miles. 27th No'vcmbcr, Ttl rcdncsday.--Took one man and marched to the post. Found all well. My hunter, Bradley, h;Jd killed eleven deer since my departure. ~ent all the men down to help the party up. They returned accompanied by two Indians, who informeJ me they were tvvo men of a band, who resided on Lake Superior, called the Fols Avoins, but spoke the language of the Chipeway~. They inf~)rmed me that Mr. l)ickson's, and the other trading houses, were established about 60 1nilcs below; that there were 70 lodges of Sioux on the Mississippi. All my men arrived at the post. We brought from our camp below the balance of l 7 deer and two dks. 28th N o·ucm!Jcr, 1 'hursday.-1he Indians departed much pleased with their reception. I dispatched corporal 'IU TilE SOUHCFS OF THE ~TISSJSSTPPI. Meek and one private down to Dickson with a letter., which would at least ha v' the effect of attaching the m o~t powerful trib s in this quarter to my interest. '29th November, Friday.-J\. Sioux ( rlw son of a war. rior called the Killeur Rouge, of the Gem des Fcuillcs) and a Fols Avoin came to the post. ll, said that, having struck our trail below, and finding some to be shoe-tracks. he conceived it to be the establishment of sonlc traders, took it, and G1mc to the po:-,t. He informed me that lVlr. Dickson had told the Sioux "that they mio·ht now hunt b where they pleased, as l had gone a head and would cause th ' Chipeways, wherever I met them, to treat them with friendship; that I had barrcJ up th .: mouth of the St. Peters, so that no liquor could a 'cend that river; but that, if they c~un on the Mis. is 'ippi, they shou!J han• what liquor th 'Y wanted :-also, that I was on the rin:r and haJ a great deal of merchandize to give them in prc~ ents." This information of Mr. l)ickson to the Ind ian~ ~eemed to have self-interest and envy fur its motiv ·s ; for~ l~y the idea of having prevented liquor from going up tht ~t. Peters, ·he gave the Indians to un lcrstand that it was a regulation of my own, and not a law of the United Stat , ; and by assuring them he would sell to thcrn on the Mississippi, he drew all the Indians from the traders on the St. Peters, who had adhc'rcd to the restriction oi llOl ~elling liquor, and ~hould any of them be" killed the . ' blame would all lie on me, as he had (without authority 'l a~surcJ them they might hunt in sccnriry. I took care to p;1vc the young chief a full explanation of my ideas on the <tbove. lJe remaiued all night. Killed two J eer. :?Otb No:ccmb~:-·r, 'a! un!ay.-I mad the two Indian~. ~omc small presents. They crossed the river and departed. l)etachcd Kcnncrman with cle\'G!n men t< brino.· , t'- lip two canoe!'>. |