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putting on a serious air, he asked whether the Corbeaux Tribes did not sometimes make use of extraordinary means to satisfy certain appetites[.] "Why do you put that question to me since you know the answer already?" "I do know the answer[.] I told it to the white man – but he doubts my words[.] Say how many species you have known personnally?" "After a little silence the young held out the fingers of one hand; then Gave the explanation – but some of these he observed were inanimate or nearly so[.]" "After the young man retired the chief remarked that his people were seldom guilty of such excesses[.] The few instances which came to his knowledge occured among war parties at a great distance from Home[.]"

About the beginning of August the Free men whom he had dispatched on our arrival, to our Establishment on the Red river returned and informed me that M^r Alexander Henry was arrived from Fort William, concluding from circumstances that a change had taken place in our department I became anxious for my departure[.] After the Rocky Mountain Indians were gone I had scarcely any occupation and

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