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8th.. of March Friday 1805

a fair Morning cold and windey, wind from the East,
visited by the Greesey head & a Ricara to day, those men
gave Some account of the Indians near the rockey Mountains

a young Indian (Minetarre) same nation & different village,


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Stole the Doughter of the Black man (Mandan), he went
to his village took his horse & returned & took away his
doughter [36]

 
[36]

More clearly worded by Biddle (i, p. 169), thus: "The father went to the
village and found his daughter, whom he brought home, and took with him a horse
belonging to the offender"—this last by way of reprisal, according to Indian custom,
which is practically law among them.—Ed.