join us, and we shall talk of you[.] The Indians love my family, and you shall have all their furs[.] Take Courage my son – quiet your mind and go to rest[.]" We followed this good mans advice[.] [N]ext morning the Old man was as good as his word. We paid a family visit to the Indians upon their arrival[.] His Son presented them with the pipe – he himself went upon the top of a house and harangued in our favour – while his kind females were busily employed from place to place collecting the skins until the whole hunt was thus secured[.]

Two bands of Asseneboines of a hundred Lodges each who passed the winter at the Forks of the little Missisouri sent daily to the Villages to barter for Corn, Beans, &^c[.] They were troublesome to us but they advised M^r LaRocque to send for an assortment in order to trade their hunt[.] But this measure required consideration. The Snow was too deep for horses and for the same reason men would require Snow shoes[.] The frames of which could easily

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