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Show :' 4 ·1. / ~ JIAP.XXIV Sunday 27t!J. In n fine clear pltas~nt m?mingJ ·m ysel [and one of the men crossed the 1'1 ve1· with ~h,(. horses, in orcllr to go by land to the month of11anls riYer: the rest of the party here are to go by water. \ V c procet•c1ed on throug.h the plains ilbout t\~enty miles and in our way saw a great n1any bufli.tloe. \ Ve tl1en struck T'ansy or Rose ri vei·, which we kept down about ten miles and encamped. Tbe land along this rivet· is handsomely covered with Cotton ~vood timber and there is an abundance of game of different kinds. In out· way we kjJled a buffaloe and a gont. 'I'hc wolvt:s in packs occa!:lionally bunt these ~·o"t'' "l1it:h are too s1vift to be l'tli1 down and taken ~, ·' ':l) l}y a ~inglc "\'.'ol f. The wolves b~\ \'ing . fixecl upon tht.it· intenckd 1 rcy allc1 taken theu· st~tt1o~1s, ~ I?::ut of the pc~ ck commence the cbnce, ancl rnnmng· lt m u circle, al'e at certain intenals relieved by tlth ers. In , his manner th<::y are al>lc to run a goat c~own. At the falls wLere the wolves are pl<::nty, I had all opportunity of seeing· one of these hunts. Aloml,ty 28th. The morning wns fine and pleasant, and at an early hour we proceeded down the river. l11 oul' w,ty we kill ed six gonls or antelopes aml ~even buiT 1luc ; and ab(•llt one o,clock cmne to tile P.olllt at the mo11th of IV1ar i:.t's rircr, where we met \Vllh the party who had corne d O\'• n fl'om the falls by wat~ r, ll'1d who bad just arri ved; and also unexpectedly 'r~ :h Ce:\ptcdn Lewis and the three men who had ~O~lC "Jth him. They bad joined the party de~c encltn g the ri \'er this fot·enoon, afLcr riding- one hundred and twenty milts sillcc y esterday morning , wl.1~n they had a ::lkirmish with a party of the.. Pnunc JOURKAL. Gro! sventres, or lligbellied Indians who i n! .. bit the plains up Mal'ia's river; of w!1ich t! Jl gave the following account. On the e\' cnin ~ of t ' t 26th Captain Lewis and his party met ' ' ith t i~· !.~ 1 those Indians, who seemed very friL tHl h· c.ilJ(l p <. ,. them two robes. In return Captain L L \\ i-; t> \ (• ~ . of them, who was a chief, a medal ; and thL \ <.ill~ , tinued together during the night ; bnt a l'ter I • of day the next morning, the Indians sn~1tche. , 1 three of out· men's guns and ran off with tht nt. (l: ,~ · Indian had the guns of two n1en, who purs11 cd <•t:ct caught him, and one of them kiiied him '\it11 J i ~ knife ; and they got back the guns. Another h. d Captain Lewis's gun, but immediately g,n·e it up. The party th~n went to ·catch th<::ir hones, ~mel fou nd the Indians dri,·ing then.1 off; when c~pt <.ti n Lel\·is ~hot one of them, and g·ave him a mortal 'l'Ctmd ; \ \'h0 not\\'ithstancling returned the firc, but \'Yilhont nw ting the Captain. So our men got all thd · o" n l1o ,·ses, but one, and a number of those hclont1 inr~" to •) 0 ·he Indi1ns. as they ran off in confusion and !cit cn~ ry ~J,ing they had. Our men then saddled th t it' horses, and made towards the l\'lissouri as fa!>t as p o~sil>le ; after c~~.ptain Lewis had satisfied ltimsclr "ith resP. ect to tbl.! geography of the country up :!\bria'3 ''1 ve1·. Yv-e this day took the ::-.rticles ottt of the ph:cc o f ~.:eposit, and examineu the large red p et iogue we left h<.:re, and fonnd it too rotten to take down til ~ rirer. \Ve the:·efore took wbat nails out of it " e could, kft our hor:;cs on the pJains aild proccetlu.l clown the r }vei'. About the time we started, a hca'y gust of ~·ain and b~til accompanied with thundt=t' and light· n!ng came on and l a~tcd about an hour, afu.:r whicT1 ~~-c had a cloudy wet afttrnoon, <mel in the eH.ning· '' e t·ncampecl about twenty five n1il-::::s bdow the fo1 l.'i. T uesday 29th. Early .i.n a cloudy morning \Vc com..;. en ceo! our-voyage from the m.outh .or. I aria's 1 in:.- , . X 2 |