JOURNAL, 
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CHAPTER VI. 
Thursday 13 th. This morning, found ourselves completely 
drenched by heavy rains, which continued the whole night. The 
chief has hot given his answer as to the conditions of the trade. 
It is for him, usually to fix the price, on a consultation with his 
subordinate chiefs, to this, the whole village must conform.—* 
The Indian women and girls, were occupied all this morning, 
in carrying earth in baskets, to replace that which the rains had 
washed off their lodges. Rambled through the village, which I 
found excessively filthy, the <■ villainous smells,’ which every¬ 
where assailed me, compelled me at length, to seek refuge in 
the open plain. The lovers of Indian manners, and mode of liv¬ 
ing, should contemplate them at a distance. The rains had ren¬ 
dered their village little better than a hog pen ; the police ap¬ 
peared to me, in some particulars , extremely negligent. Some 
of the ancient cities of the old world, were probably like this 
village, inattentive to that cleanliness so necessary to health, 
where a great mass of beings are collected in one place; 
and we need not be surprised at the frequency of desolating 
plagues and pestilence. The village is swarming with dogs 
and children. I rank these together, for they are inseparable 
companions. Wherever I went, the children ran away, scream¬ 
ing, and frightened at my outr6 and savage appearance. Let 
us not flatter ourselves with the belief, that the effect of our ci¬ 
vilization and refinement, is to render us agreeable and lovely 
to the eyes of those whom we exclusively denominate savages ! 
The dogs, of which every family has thirty or forty, pretended 
to make a show of fierceness, but on the least threat, ran off— 
They are of different sizes and colors. A number are fattened 
on purpose to eat, others are used to draw their baggage.— 
It is nothing more than the domesticated wolf. In wandering 
through the prairies, I have often mistaken wolves for Indian 
dogs. The larger kind has long curly hair, and resembles the 
shepherd dog. There is the same diversity amongst the wolves 
