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crooked, a thing very rarely to be seen among 

 Indians ; of a small size, thin and slender. Both 

 men and women have their hair hanging loose on 

 their heads, and only cut short over their eyes. 

 Their dress consists only of mountain sheep, ca- 

 bree or deer skins, thrown over their shoulders. 

 The women sometimes wore a girdle of loose 

 bark, tied round their middle, which was but an 

 indifferent covering. Their ornaments consisted 

 of white bear's claws, and a few beads. The men 

 were armed with the Casoe-tite, or war club, a 

 target or shield made of raw buffaloe hides, a 

 dagger made of bone, ten inches long, and a small 

 bow. We were the first white people which either 

 they, or the Flat-heads had ever seen. The Flat- 

 heads, likewise, arm themselves with the war club, 

 in which a bone is fastened that projects three 

 inches, a bone dagger, and sometimes one made 

 of iron, which they work out themselves, ten 

 inches long, and three wide, at the handle ; a spear 

 pointed with bone or iron, and when they cross 

 the mountains to hunt the. buffaloe, they carry a 

 bow with them. The buffaloe is not found on 

 the west side of the Rocky mountains, and there 

 these people subsist on fish and roots. 



Our horses arrived on the 15th, and on the 

 16th, we embarked, to ascend the Jaun river. 

 On the 17th, came to a camp of the Paunch In- 

 dians, where we halted for the horses. These 

 Indians reside mostly towards the head waters of 

 the river Jaun, and the branches of the Big-horn., 



