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from its mouth. This river comes from the 

 south, meanders, for a great distance, through a 

 fine, rich country, and is two hundred and fifty 

 yards wide, where it enters the Missouri. The 

 Kanzas have about three hundred warriors and 

 thirteen hundred souls. They are commonly at 

 "war with all nations, except the Ottoes, with 

 "whom they have intermarriages. The limits of 

 the country they claim is unknown ; they hunt 

 on the upper part of the Kanzas and Arkansas 

 rivers. They live in their villages, from about 

 the fifteenth of March to fifteenth of May, and 

 again from the fifteenth of August to the fifteenth 

 of October ; the rest of the year they devote to 

 hunting. At present, they are a dissolute, 

 lawless, banditti ; frequently plundering traders, 

 and committing depredation on people ascending 

 and descending the Missouri. 



The Missouri nation live on the south side 

 of the river Plate, fifteen leagues from its mouth. 

 They are the remnant of the most numerous na- 

 tion, inhabiting the Missouri when first known to 

 the French. Their ancient principal village was 

 situated in an extensive plain, on the northern 

 bank of the Missouri, just below the mouth of 

 Grand river. Frequent wars with the Saukees 

 and Renars, and repeated attacks of the small 

 pox, have reduced them to about eighty warriors, 

 and a state of dependance on the Ottoes. They 

 are about three hundred souls. They have a just 

 claim to an exteusive and fertile country, and yet 



