Tobacco is weak, tastes differently from ours and the smell which the smoke emits is very disagreeable to Strangers[.] I could not learn where the Indians had that plant originally but we have to suppose it, from below, and that it found its way the same as the horses from the Spaniards[.]

In due season some men and horses arrived from the Asseneboine or Red river[.] We crossed to meet them at the Mandane Village – where we found the Indians in great alarm; having that morning discovered at the entrance of the Village some strange Arrows and an Old shoe – insolent signals – and the position of the enemy was anxiously looked for all day – in the Vicinity but without success[.] In course of the Ensuing night several Shots were heard[.] This created an uproar – singing and dancing and drums beating and War hoops occupied all hands to the dawn of day when the whole Village moved forward to brave the enemy – but all the Vestiges they found consisted only of a dead horse

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