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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  day 
  they 
  remained 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  — 
  

  

  to 
  air 
  clothes 
  in 
  the 
  sunshine, 
  to 
  take 
  better 
  care 
  of 
  the 
  sick, 
  and 
  to 
  biiry 
  the 
  

   dead. 
  

  

  June 
  21 
  : 
  

  

  Pere 
  Hocken 
  dead. 
  He 
  died 
  as 
  a 
  Christian. 
  Had 
  been 
  sick 
  only 
  two 
  hours. 
  

   It 
  was 
  about 
  4 
  o'clock 
  in 
  the 
  morning 
  when 
  I 
  heard 
  him 
  calling 
  me. 
  I 
  found 
  

   him 
  half 
  dressed, 
  on 
  his 
  bed, 
  in 
  violent 
  convulsions. 
  I 
  called 
  Pere 
  de 
  Smet. 
  

   We 
  anchored 
  in 
  the 
  evening 
  and 
  buried 
  him 
  by 
  torchlight. 
  Pere 
  Hocken 
  was 
  

   to 
  have 
  gone 
  as 
  missionary 
  to 
  the 
  Nezperces. 
  And 
  I 
  had 
  not 
  sketched 
  hid 
  

   portrait 
  for 
  Pere 
  de 
  Smet. 
  

  

  Thus, 
  the 
  /St. 
  Ange, 
  with 
  death 
  and 
  suffering 
  aboard, 
  continued 
  its 
  

   voyage 
  up 
  the 
  Missouri, 
  and 
  on 
  July 
  4, 
  so 
  wrote 
  Kurz 
  : 
  

  

  While 
  we 
  were 
  at 
  an 
  extra 
  lunch 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  the 
  Fourth, 
  we 
  came 
  in 
  sight 
  of 
  

   Fort 
  Pierre. 
  Finally, 
  after 
  our 
  midday 
  meal 
  was 
  over, 
  we 
  reached 
  the 
  fort, 
  

   W. 
  Picotte's 
  principal 
  trading 
  post 
  for 
  the 
  Teton 
  Sioux. 
  A 
  dozen 
  braves, 
  

   painted 
  and 
  decorated, 
  guarded 
  the 
  wares 
  that 
  were 
  unloaded 
  from 
  the 
  boat. 
  

   Most 
  Sioux 
  women 
  wear 
  still 
  their 
  traditional 
  waist 
  cloth. 
  I 
  sketched 
  the 
  fort 
  

   and 
  the 
  settlement 
  from 
  the 
  deck 
  of 
  the 
  St. 
  Ange. 
  Many 
  people 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  cargo 
  were 
  left 
  here. 
  

  

  They 
  remained 
  at 
  Fort 
  Pierre 
  until 
  the 
  following 
  morning, 
  when 
  — 
  

  

  the 
  Teton 
  warriors 
  gave 
  us 
  a 
  parting 
  salute. 
  Winter 
  huts 
  in 
  several 
  abandoned 
  

   Indian 
  villages 
  demolished 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  using 
  poles 
  and 
  beams 
  for 
  fire 
  

   wood. 
  

  

  Two 
  days 
  later 
  they 
  saw 
  the 
  first 
  buffalo, 
  "several 
  buffalo 
  bulls 
  

   standing 
  on 
  a 
  sand 
  bank," 
  and 
  July 
  8 
  "reached 
  Fort 
  Clark, 
  the 
  

   Ricaras's 
  village." 
  Later 
  in 
  the 
  day 
  Kurz 
  went 
  ashore 
  when, 
  so 
  he 
  

   wrote 
  : 
  

  

  Several 
  Mandans 
  accompanied 
  us 
  to 
  their 
  near-by 
  settlement. 
  Fourteen 
  huts, 
  

   mostly 
  then 
  empty, 
  poor 
  remnant 
  of 
  a 
  tribe. 
  A 
  storm 
  drove 
  us 
  so 
  violently 
  

   shoreward 
  that 
  we 
  were 
  compelled 
  to 
  halt 
  near 
  those 
  huts. 
  Several 
  Mandans 
  

   and 
  Minnitarie 
  remained 
  on 
  board 
  and 
  journeyed 
  with 
  us 
  to 
  Fort 
  Berthold, 
  

   which 
  they 
  regarded 
  as 
  a 
  great 
  favor. 
  The 
  village 
  now 
  inhabited 
  by 
  the 
  

   Ricaras, 
  or 
  Riks, 
  belonged 
  formerly 
  to 
  the 
  Mandans. 
  

  

  A 
  week 
  after 
  the 
  St. 
  Ange 
  had 
  passed 
  Sarpy's 
  trade 
  house, 
  Kurz 
  

   entered 
  in 
  his 
  journal: 
  

  

  We 
  travel 
  slowly. 
  As 
  Louis 
  has 
  died 
  I 
  am 
  now 
  installed 
  as 
  Mr. 
  Picotte's 
  

   clerk. 
  ' 
  

  

  Thus 
  he 
  became 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  company 
  and 
  continued 
  to 
  

   hold 
  some 
  position 
  for 
  several 
  months. 
  And 
  so 
  it 
  was 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  

   morning 
  of 
  July 
  9 
  he 
  was 
  told 
  by 
  Picotte 
  to 
  be 
  prepared 
  to 
  remain 
  

   at 
  Fort 
  Berthold 
  as 
  he 
  had 
  just 
  heard 
  that 
  Kipp, 
  the 
  bourgeois 
  at 
  

   that 
  post, 
  wished 
  to 
  spend 
  the 
  summer 
  in 
  Canada 
  and, 
  therefore, 
  a 
  

   clerk 
  must 
  be 
  left 
  in 
  charge. 
  

  

  At 
  midday 
  we 
  saw 
  from 
  afar 
  the 
  white 
  palisades 
  of 
  an 
  Indian 
  village 
  gleam- 
  

   ing 
  in 
  the 
  sunlight. 
  

  

  