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accompanied him to meet us, le Gros , the principal war chief. 
The price of a horse was commonly ten dollars worth of goods 
first cost. Hunt had resolved to purchase horses at this place 
and proceed by land to the Columbia, being assured by some 
hunters, who met him before his arrival here, that this would 
iae his best route. 
Mr. Bradbury and I, took a walk into the upper village? 
which is separated from the lower by a stream about twenty 
yards wide—-Entered several lodges, the people of which re¬ 
ceived us with kindness, placed mats and skins for us to sit on, 
and after smoking the pipe* offered us something to eat 5 this 
consisted of fresh buffaloe meat served in a wooded dish.—- 
They had a variety of earthen vessels, in which they prepared 
their food, or kept water. After the meatjthey offered us horn- 
ony made of eorn dried in the milk, mixed with beans, which 
was prepared with buffaloe marrow, and tasted extremely well; 
also pounded and made into gruel. The prairie turnip, is a root 
very common in the prairies, with something of the taste of the 
turnip, but more dry; this they eat dried and pounded, made in¬ 
to gruel. Their most common food is homony and dried buf¬ 
faloe meat. In one of the lodges which we visited, we found 
the doctor, who was preparing some medicine for a sick lad.— 
Pie was cooling with a spoon a decoction of some roots, which 
had a strong taste and smell, not unlike jalap. He showed us 
a variety of simples which he used. The most of them were 
common plants with some medicinal properties, but rather 
harmless than otherwise. The boy had a slight pleurisy. The 
chief remedy for their diseases, which they conceive to be ow¬ 
ing to a disorder of the bowels, is rubbing the belly and sides of 
the patient, sometimes with such violence, as to cause fainting^ 
When they become dangerous, they resort to charms and incan¬ 
tations, such as singing, dancing, blowing on the siek, See. They 
are very successful in the treatment of wounds. When the* 
wound becomes very obstinate, they commonly burn it, after 
"which it heals more easily. 
Saturday 1 5th. Fine weather—Took a walk with Mr. Brad¬ 
bury through the country, which is entirely open, and some-* 
What hilly. Large masses of granite were usually found on th§ 
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