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execute this act of justice, retired from the village on our 

 approach. The agent, on this account, declared to the coun- 

 cil, that he wished never to see him again, that he did not 

 consider him a brave man, as he was afraid to comply with 

 his promise, and that if he ever should meet with him in 

 council, he would compel him .to sit with the young men. 

 The council was further assured, that the offences, which 

 the young men of this nation had committed against white 

 people would be forgiven, but not forgotten. We had to re- 

 gret the absence of the son of Fnol Robe, a fine intelligent 

 young man, who was engaged on some predatory excursion, 

 at the head of one hundred and sixty warriors. 



During the night a Konza war party carried off one hun- 

 dred and forty horses from the village. 



The following day we returned to the village of the Grand 

 Pawnees, and received the horses that had been presented 

 at the council by the ceremony of the pipe. A quantity of 

 merchandize had been brought with us from Camp Mis- 

 souri, to exchange for horses, for the service of the troops. 

 This was put into the hands of Messrs. Pappan and Dough- 

 erty for that purpose, and we retired to our camp, which 

 was upon the same spot as that we occupied on the night oi 

 the twenty-fourth instant. 



May 1st. Mr. Pappan and Mr. Dougherty arrived from 

 the village, having purchased nineteen horses and mules. 

 The price of the horses and mules averaged about the 

 amount of thirtv dollars in Indian merchandize, estimated 

 at the St. Louis valuation. 



At each of the villages, we observed small sticks of the 

 length of eighteen inches or two feet, painted red, stuck in 

 the earth in various situations, but chiefly on the roots of 

 the houses, each bearing the fragment of a human scalp, the 

 hair of which streamed in the wind. Before the entrance to 

 some of the lodges were small frames, like painters' easels, 

 supporting each a shield, and generally a large painted cy- 



