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ORIGIN OF THfl1



sourt, where I staid a long time
that is spoken beyond them. In
souri I passed through meadows



in length which
  " ' IWhen the
ed I continued i
came to the nati
wards in conseq
ed in the same
met with some 4



I



were quite covere(
cold was past, and
my journey up aloi
ion of the west, or
tuence of directions



course, 1
of the nal



ing in that neighbourhoo4
alone. I continued with
and then accompanied o
was near her time of lyin
far off betwixt the north
journey along the MiSso
marched directly north



the Ott



who receiveb



if II had been of their own
joined them, when we camt
westward ill a direction cor
we proceeded down this rix
at a villare, a party of th(
carry a Calnmet of peace i
we embarked in a Petltiau4
fo1 eiohteen days, landing l
selves with provisions. Whil
wvere at peace with the 0t
the cold was past, that I i
which was common to mos
yond them. The cold wa
barked on the fine rviver ant
eral nations with whom I gi
till I arrived at the nation
ney fromn the great water
lives in the wood about the



to learn the P,
going along t
i whole day's
I with buffalo
the snowvs Wt
uab the Misso%



7,
the
from



mear thirty de
ion of Otter
iC, and were s
the hunters
ne of therm
g i1n, to their
atnd west.
uri for nine
for five days
I me with as



nation.
e to the fi
itrary to
rer a wh
e Otters,



-J
n
ti
0
*1



Cawra9..
1 them, I



Lys, and at
es, who we
urprised tP
two or thr



inguaae
he Ms-
journey
es.
wre melt-
uri, till I
  After-
proceed-
leiigth I
re hunt-
) see me
ee days,



and his wiie, who
village, which lay
We continued our



days,
, and
muct
A few
e rive
hat of
le day



ATI



and then we
met more of
1i kindness as
days after, I
r which runs
the Missouri,
r and arrived



'lo we]



re



to a nation bevond t
rre and xvent down
ioxv and then to su
?n. I arrived at the n;



ters, I staved
    I   W~~~~~~*



w~ith



going to
hem, and
the river
pply our-
ation who
them till



might learn their lanaruage,
t of the nations that lived be-
s hardly gone when I em-
1 in my course I met with sev-
meral ly stayed but one night,
which is but one day's jour-
in the west. This nation
distance of a league from the



r
river, from the apprehension of bearded men, who come
on their coasts in floatingr villages and carry off their



ers,



I



.