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 | Chapter VI Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 |  |
31st.. of December Monday 1804 Fort Mandan—
a fine Day Some wind last
night which Mixed the Snow
and Sand in the bead of the river, which has
the appearance
of hillocks of Sand on the ice, which is also Covered with
Sand & Snow, the frost which falls in the night, Continues
on
the earth & old Snow &c. &c. a number of indians here
every
Day our blakSmith Mending their axes hoes &c. &c.
for which the
Squars bring Corn for payment. [1]
Biddle here adds: "In their general conduct during these
visits they are honest,
but will occasionally pilfer any small article."
Mackenzie says (Masson's Bourg.
Nord-Ouest, i, p. 330), of the Indian opinion regarding Lewis
and Clark: "The
Indians admired the air gun, as it could discharge forty
shots out of one load, but
they dreaded the magic of the owners. 'Had I
these white warriors in the upper
plains,' said the Gros
Ventres chief, 'my young men on horseback would soon do for
them, as
they would do for so many wolves, for,' continued he, 'there are only two
sensible men among them, the worker of iron and the mender of guns."'
—Ed.
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