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9th. Nov. Friday 1804 —
a verry hard frost this morning we continue to build our
Cabens, under many Disadvantages, Day cloudy wind from
the NW.
Several Indians pass with flying news (reports), we
got a white weasel, (Taile excepted which was black at the end)
of
an Indian Cap.t Lewis walked to the hill ab.t 3/4 of a mile.
we are Situated in a point of the
Missouri North Side in a
Cotton wood Timber, this Timber is tall and heavy
containing
for Horses to winter (as is Said by the Indians) The Mandans
Graze their horses in the Day on Grass, and at night give them
a Stick (an arm full) of Cotton wood (boughs) to eate, Horses
Dogs & people all pass the night in the Same Lodge or round
House, Covd. with earth with a fire in the middle[16] great number
of wild gees pass to the South, flew verry high.
These
earth lodges of the Mandan differentiated them from the other Indians of
the plains, and are described by all early travellers. See Maximilian,
Prince of Weid's
Voyage in the Interior of North
America (London, 1843); Catlin's North American
Indians (London, 1841); and Washington Matthews's "Earth Lodge in
Art," in
American Anthropologist, 1901, pp.
1–12. This lodge is the prototype of the settler's
sod-house, but is
seldom used now by the Mandan. For their present condition see
Wheeler's
Wonderland, 1903, pp. 19–36.—
ED.
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