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Sunday 20th.. Jany. 1805.

Some men went up to the villages. they informed us that
they all used them verry well. gave them pleanty to eat, &
when they had done eating they gave a bowl of victuls to a
buffalows head which they worshiped, & Sd. Eat this So that the
live ones may come in that we may git a Supply of meat.
Some of them & indeed the most of them have Strange & uncommon
Ideas, but verry Ignorant of our forms & customs,
but quick & Sensible in their own way & in their own conceit
&c &c.[3]

 
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There is nearly half a page blank after this entry, across which a line is drawn to
indicate the break in time.—Ed.