and in such cases experience has taught them to make fires of Buffalo Dung dried in the sun, after the Indian manners of which there is always plenty to be had; which shows the vast number of those animals that frequent the plains. There is so little snow at the Missouri that the natives run down the Buffalo on horse back the whole winter through. These Indians live in settled villages, fortified with Palisades which they seldom ever abandon, and are the best husband men in the whole north west; for they raise Indian Corn or (Maize) Beans, Pumpkinks, Squashes, and in considerable quantity; not only sufficient to supply thier own wants with the help of the Buffalo, but also to sell and give away to all strangers that enter their villages. They are the mildest and most honest Indians upon the whole continent; and withal very fond of the White people. They report that the Missouri from their settlements to the rocky mountains is

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