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two thousand five hundred souls. They claim 

 no particular country, nor assign themselves any 

 limits ; their tradition is that they have always 

 resided in their present villages. Their customs, 

 manners, and dispositions, are similar to the 

 Mandans. Their villages are on both sides of 

 Knife river, near the Missouri, five miles above 

 the P/Landans. On account of the scarcity of 

 wood, they leave their villages in the cold season, 

 and reside in large bands, in camps, on different 

 parts of the Missouri, as high up as Yellow Stone 

 river, and west of their villages, about Turtle 

 mountain. These people have suffered by the 

 small pox, but have been able to resist the attacks 

 of the Sioux. 



The Ayauwais nation, reside forty leagues up 

 the river Demoin, and consist of two hundred 

 warriors, and about eight hundred souls. They 

 are descendants from the ancient Missouri, and 

 claim the country west of them to the Missouri, 

 and to the boundary of the Saukees and Foxes ; 

 are a turbulent savage people, who frequently 

 abuse their traders, and commit depredations on 

 those who are ascending and descending the Mis- 

 souri. 



Saukees and Ranars or Foxes, are two nations 

 so nearly consolidated into one, that they may be 

 considered as the same people. They speak the 

 same language, and live near together, on the 

 west side of the Mississippi, one hundred and 

 forty leagues above Saint Louis. Formerly they 



