1st.. of November. Thursday 1804—
the Wind hard from the NW. Mr. Mc. Crackin a Trader
Set out at 7 oClock to the Fort on the
Ossiniboin by him
Send a letter, (inclosing a Copy of the British
Ministers protection)
to the principal
agent of the Company.[11]
at about 10
oClock the Chiefs of the Lower
Village came and after a Short
time informed us they wished they would us
to [i.e., that we
would—Ed.] call at their Village & take Some corn, [They
said] that they would make peace with the Ricares
they never
made war against them but after the Rees
killed their Chiefs
they killed them like the birds, and were tired (of killing them)
and would Send a Chief and Some brave
men to the Ricares
to Smoke with that people. in the evening we Set out
and
fell down to the lower Village where Capt Lewis
got out and
continud at the village untill after night I proceeded on
&
landed on the S. S. at the upper point of the 1st. Timber on the
Starboard Side after landing &
continuing all night droped
down to
a proper place to build Cap
t. Lewis Came down after
night, and informed me he intended to return the next
morning by the
perticular request of the Chiefs.
We passed the Villages on our Decent in
View of Great
numbers of the inhabitents
