The Weather Was Now Very Cold, Although August Had Not Passed.
Ink Froze In The Pen During The Night, And The Meadows Were White With Frost;
But The Days Were Warm, Even Hot.
In the absence of Captain Clark, his colleague and party had been visited
by Cameahwait and about fifty of his band, with their women and children.
Captain Lewis' journal says:
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"After they had camped near us and turned loose their horses,
we called a council of all the chiefs and warriors,
and addressed them in a speech. Additional presents were
then distributed, particularly to the two second chiefs, who had,
agreeably to their promises, exerted themselves in our favor.
The council was then adjourned, and all the Indians were
treated with an abundant meal of boiled Indian corn and beans.
The poor wretches, who had no animal food and scarcely anything
but a few fish, had been almost starved, and received this new
luxury with great thankfulness. Out of compliment to the chief,
we gave him a few dried squashes, which we had brought from
the Mandans, and he declared it was the best food he had ever
tasted except sugar, a small lump of which he had received from
his sister Sacajawea. He now declared how happy they should
all be to live in a country which produced so many good things;
and we told him that it would not be long before the white
men would put it in their power to live below the mountains,
where they might themselves cultivate all these kinds of food,
instead of wandering in the mountains.
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