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"After Arranging The Camp We Assembled All The Warriors, And Having
Smoked With Them, The Violins Were Produced, And Some Of The Men Danced.
This Civility Was Returned By The Indians In A Style Of Dancing,
Such As We Had Not Yet Seen.
The spectators formed a circle
round the dancers, who, with their robes drawn tightly round
the shoulders, and divided
Into parties of five or six men,
perform by crossing in a line from one side of the circle to the other.
All the parties, performers as well as spectators, sing, and after
proceeding in this way for some time, the spectators join,
and the whole concludes by a promiscuous dance and song.
Having finished, the natives retired at our request, after promising
to barter horses with us in the morning."
They bought three horses of these Indians and hired
three more from a Chopunnish who was to accompany them.
The journal adds: -
"The natives also had promised to take our canoes in exchange for horses;
but when they found that we were resolved on travelling by land they refused
giving us anything, in hopes that we would be forced to leave them.
Disgusted at this conduct, we determined rather to cut them to pieces
than suffer these people to enjoy them, and actually began to split them,
on which they gave us several strands of beads for each canoe.
We had now a sufficient number of horses to carry our baggage,
and therefore proceeded wholly by land."
Next day the party camped near a tribe of Indians known as
the Pishquitpah.
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