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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from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents
  
  
  
  
  
  
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4th.. of December Tuesday 1804—

a cloudy raw Day wind from the N.W. the Black cat and
two young Chiefs Visit us and as usial Stay all Day the river
rise one inch fini[s]h the main bastion, our interpetr. (Jessaume)
we discover to be assumeing and discontent'd.[31]

 
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Biddle here makes a brief statement of the religious belief and origin-myth of the
Mandan; cf. therewith Catlin's Illust. N. Amer. Inds. (London, 1866), i, pp. 156,
157, 177–183, and Maximilian's Voyage, ii, pp. 418–436.—Ed.