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JOURNAL. 
Wednesday At 8 o'clock last night a storm 
of wind and rain came ob from the N. west, and the 
rain continued the greater part of the ni^ght. The 
morning was cloudy with some thunderv We are 
generally well supplied with Catfish, the best I hav© 
ever seen^ Some large ones were taken last night*^ 
In the afternoon the men who had gone to the In- 
dian camp returned and brought with them sixty 
Indians of the Sioux nation* They encamped for 
the evening upon the opposite shore:, a.nd some corn^ 
and tobacco were sent over to them. The sergeant 
who had gone to their camp informed me that their 
lodges, {ovtf in number, are about mhe miles from- 
tiie Missouri on^ the Sacque river. They are made 
of dressed buffliloe and elk skins, painted red and 
rwhite, and are very handsome; He said Mhe women 
are homely and mostly old ; b^t the young naen likely 
and active. They killed a dog ^ a tok^en of friend^ 
ship. One of our men killed a deer. ^' 
Thursday 30//j'. A foggy ramming, and heavj^t^ew* 
At nine o'clock the Indians/ came over the river; 
Four of thern, who were mMpians, went backwards 
and forwards, through and r^nd our camp, singing 
and making a noise. After t™L ceremony ^as over 
they ail sat in council. Capim Lewis and Captain 
Clarke made five of them chief9,"'and gave them some 
small presents. At dark Captain Lewis gave them a 
grained deer skin to stretch over a half keg for a 
drum. When that was ready they all assembled 
round some fires made fi^^p^^e purpose i two of them 
beat on the drui^, »and fome of tlie rest had little 
bag,s of undressed skins dried) with beads or small 
pebbles in them, with which they niade a noise. 
The^^ are their instruments of musick. Ten^ or 
twelve acted* as musicians, while twenty or thirty 
young men and boys engaged in the dance, which 
was 'continued during ti^e night- No Sqiiaws made 
their af5)earnce among this party. 
