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dize sent to his party to deal for the skins. It is a singular 

 circumstance, that this is the second instance of these two 

 brothers meeting in this vicinity, after the one had been sup- 

 posed to have been killed by the Sioux. 



A-ha-ga-nash-he, whom we invited to take up his lodgings 

 for the night in our room, became alarmed at my repute as a 

 medicine man, fearing that I would cast some spell upon him, 

 or otherwise injure him by the operation of some potent 

 mystic medicine: he removed his quarters to the adjoining 

 room, where he seemed to think he was safe from my incan- 

 tations. 



Our hunter, whose name is No-zun-da-je, or He that 

 does not dodge, is esteemed a good hunter by his nation ; 

 but he is not a distinguished warrior, although he has been 

 in numerous battles. He says he has killed several red skins 

 in action, but never yet had the honour to strike a body. He 

 showed us the scars of many wounds, most of which he had 

 inflicted on himself, when in mourning for the death of his 

 relatives and friends, by thrusting arrows through the skin 

 and a portion of the flesh of his arm. His brother, at the 

 same time, showed many scars which he had caused by cut- 

 ting out pieces from his body with a knife, on the same occa- 

 sions. 



Several Omawhaws visited us on the 8th, and a party of three 

 of them, who were in possession of a keg of whiskey, invited 

 our hunter to accompany them, for the night, to " make his 

 heart glad" with a portion of its contents. The Omawhaws, 

 Otoes, Missouries, and Ioways are excessively attached to 

 this destructive liquor. 



On the 9th December, Lieutenant Swift, in company with 

 Mr. Pilcher of the Missouri Fur Company, set out on a 

 visit to the Omawhaws. His course was first directed 

 towards the Elk Horn river, tributary to the Platte, and af- 

 terwards along the valley of the former, to the Omawhaw 

 encampment, which he reached at the distance of about one 



