Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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River Maropa 9th.. of October 1804. Tuesday
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River Maropa 9th.. of October 1804. Tuesday —
a windey rainey night, and cold, So much So we Could not
speek with the Indians to day the three great Chiefs and
many others Came to see us to day, we gave them some
tobacco and informed them we
would Speek on tomorrow,
the day continued Cold & windey some rain
Sorry Canoos
of Skins passed down from the 2 Villages a Short distance
above, and many Came to view us all day, much astonished
at my black
Servent, who did not lose the opportunity of
[displaying—Ed.] his powers Strength &c. &c. this nation
never Saw a black man before[27]
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Several hunters Came in with loades of meat, I
observed
Several Canoos made of a Single Buffalow Skin with 3 thre
squars Cross the river to day in waves as high as I ever Saw
them on
this river, quite uncomposed I have a Slite Plursie
this evening verry
cold &c. &c.[28]
1st. Chiefs name Ka kawissassa (lighting Crow)
2d do do Pocasse (or Hay)
3rd. do do piaheto (or Eagles feather)
By way of amusement he told them that he had once been a wild animal, and
caught and tamed by his master; and to convince them showed them feats of strength
which added to his looks made him more terrible than we wished him to be.—
Biddle (i, p. 101).
In a rare pamphlet entitled Adventures of Zenas Leonard (Clearfield, Pa., 1839)
—for information regarding which see Chittenden's Amer. Fur Trade, i, p. 397—
is an account of a negro residing (1832–34) in the Crow village at the junction of
Bighorn and Stinking rivers, who apparently was Clark's servant York. He told
Leonard that he first went to that country with Lewis and Clark, with whom he
returned to Missouri; that he afterward accompanied a trader up the Missouri, and
had remained with the Indians ever since (about ten or twelve years). He had,
when Leonard saw him, four Indian wives, and possessed much reputation and influence
among the Crows, from whom he secured the return of some horses which they
had stolen from Leonard's party.—Walter B. Douglas (St. Louis).
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