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"Captain Lewis Slackened His Pace, And Followed At A Sufficient
Distance To Observe Them.
When they reached the place where
Drewyer had thrown out the intestines, they all dismounted in
confusion and ran
Tumbling over each other like famished dogs.
Each tore away whatever part he could, and instantly began to eat it.
Some had the liver, some the kidneys - in short, no part on
which we are accustomed to look with disgust escaped them.
One of them, who had seized about nine feet of the entrails,
was chewing at one end, while with his hand he was diligently
clearing his way by discharging the contents at the other.
It was indeed impossible to see these wretches ravenously feeding
on the filth of animals, the blood streaming from their mouths,
without deploring how nearly the condition of savages approaches
that of the brute creation. Yet, though suffering with hunger,
they did not attempt, as they might have done, to take by force
the whole deer, but contented themselves with what had been thrown
away by the hunter. Captain Lewis now had the deer skinned,
and after reserving a quarter of it gave the rest of the animal
to the chief, to be divided among the Indians, who immediately
devoured nearly the whole of it without cooking. They now went
toward the [Prairie] creek, where there was some brushwood
to make a fire, and found Drewyer, who had killed a second deer.
The same struggle for the entrails was renewed here, and on giving
nearly the whole deer to the Indians, they devoured it even
to the soft part of the hoofs.
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