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said to be fertile, well watered, and in most parU 

 well timbered. These people are divided into 

 four bands, called by themselves, Ahah-ar-ro-pir- 

 no-pah, Noo-ta, Pa-rees-car, and E-hart-sar. 

 They annually visit the Mandans, Minetares, 

 and Ahwahaways, to whom they barter horses, 

 mules, leather lodges, and many articles of Indian 

 apparel, for which they receive guns, ammunition, 

 axes, kettles, awls, and other European manu- 

 factures. When they return to their country, 

 they are, in turn, visited by the Paunch and 

 Snake Indians, to whom they barter most of the 

 articles they have obtained from the nations on 

 the Missouri, for horses and mules, of which 

 those nations have a greater abundance than 

 themselves. They also obtain of the Snake In- 

 dians, bridle bits, blankets and some other arti- 

 cles, which those Indians purchase of the Span- 

 iards. 



The Al-la-ka-we-ah, or Paunch Indians, or 

 Gens de Pause, reside on each side of the Yellow 

 Stone river, near the Rocky Mountains, and 

 heads of the Big-horn river. They have eight 

 hundred warriors, and two thousand three hundred 

 souls. These are said to be a peaceable, well 

 disposed nation. Their country is variegated, 

 consisting of mountains, vallies, plains, and wood 

 lands, irregularly interspersed. These people, as 

 well as the Crow Indians, inhabit a country, 

 which produces an abundance of the most valua- 



