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neighbours. An Indian fair is attended in the 

 month of May, at a place agreed upon, on the 

 waters of James river, where this band repair and 

 meet the Teton s, Yank tons of the North, and 

 Ahnah. Here a considerable traffic is carried on, 

 and merchandise exchanged for horses and other 

 articles. These people are devoted to the inter- 

 ests of their traders. 



Yanktons of the North inhabit a country which 

 is almost one entire plain, destitute of wood, but 

 a good soil and well watered. 



Yanktons Ahnah are considered the best dis- 

 posed Sioux, who rove on the banks of the Mis- 

 souri ; but they will suffer no trader to ascend the 

 river if they can prevent it : they arrest the pro- 

 gress of all they meet with, and generally compel 

 them to sell their merchandise at a price very 

 nearly what they themselves fix upon it but they 

 do not often commit any other acts of violence 

 on the whites. Their country is very fertile, 

 consisting of wood land and prairie. 

 | Tetons Bois Brule,Tetons Okandandas, Tetons 

 Minnakineazzo, and Tetons Sahone are four 

 bands which rove over a country, almost entirely 

 level, where a tree is scarcely to be seen, unless 

 it be by water courses, or steep declivities of a 

 small number of hills. It is from this country 

 that the Missouri derives most of its colouring 

 matter ; the earth is strongly impregnated with 

 glauber salts, all urn, copperas, and sulphur, and 

 when saturated with water, large bodies of the 



