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from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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24th.. December Monday 1804—
Several Chiefs and numbers of Men
Womin and Children
at the fort to Day, Some for trade, the most as lookers
on,
we gave a fellet of Sheep Skin (which we brought for Spunging)
to 3 Chiefs one to each of 2 inches
wide, [on] which they
lay Great value (priseing those felets equal to a
fine horse), a
fine Day we finished the pickengen (picketing) around our
works.
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