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29th.. November Thursday 1804—
A verry cold
windey day wind from the N.W. by W.
Some snow last night the detph of the
Snow is various in the
wood about 13 inches, The river Closed at the
Village above
and fell last night two feet, Mr. La Rock and one of his men
Came to visit us, we
informed him what we had herd of his
intentions of makeing Chiefs &c.
and forbid him to give
Meadels or flags to the Indians, he Denied haveing
any
Such intention, we agreed that one of our interpeters Should
than what tended to trade alone. he gave fair promises &c.[29]
Sergeant Pryor in takeing down the mast put his
Sholder
out of Place, we made four trials before we replaced it a cold
afternoon wind as useal N W. river begin to rise a little.
Larocque gives the same
account (Masson's Bourg. Nord-Ouest, i, p. 304), and
adds : "As I had neither flags nor medals, I ran no risk of disobeying
those orders,
of which I assured them." The interpreter lent to the
British was Charboneau.
McKenzie thus describes (ut
supra, p. 336) the method of Lewis and Clark's communications
with the Indians : "A mulatto,
who spoke bad French and worse English,
served
as interpreter to the Captains, so that a single word to be understood by
the party required to pass from the Natives to the woman [Sacajawea,
Indian wife of
Charboneau, who could not speak English], from the woman to
the husband, from
the husband to the mulatto, from the mulatto to the
captains."—Ed.
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