20th. February Wednesday 1805
a Butifull Day, visited by
the Little raven verry early this
mornning I am informed of the Death of
an old man whome
I saw in the Mandan Village this man, informed me that he
"was 120 winters old, he requested his grand Children to
Dress him
after Death & Set him on a Stone on a hill with his
face towards his
old Village or Down the river, that he might
go Streight to his brother at
their old village under ground"[26]
I observed Several Mandans verry old chiefly
men[27]
