Arikara villages near present-day Mobridge — John Ordway: October 12, 1804

assembled on the bank near us for to Trade with us. they wanted
red paint mostly, but would Give whatever they had to Spare
for any kind of Goods one of the men Gave an Indian a pin
hook & the Indian Gave him in return a pair of Moggisins we
1 In Corson County, three miles above Arickaree Point, the camping place
from October 8 to October 11.
2 “after being treated by everry civility by those people who are both pore
& Durtey.” Clark. Gass, on the contrary, calls them “the best looking Indians
I have ever seen,” and again, “the most cleanly Indians I have ever seen on
the voyage.”
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Gave them Some Small articles of Goods for Buffalow Robes
& Mogg11 [moccasins] &. C. the officers went to the villages
in order to hear what the chiefs had to Say. They Gave us 10
or 12 bushels of corn & beans &. C. &. C. the officers came on
board about 12 oClock took a good Indian with us who had
been to the head of the Missouri River.1 about 1 oClock we
Set off the fiddle playing & the horns Sounding &. C. little
ab° the Towns we saw a great nomber of Squaws employed in
toteing wood across the River in their Buffalow hide cannos
proceeded on. passd a timbred bottom on s. s. also one on the
N. S. where we Camped at the upper end of the Bottom on
N. S.2 Newman & Reed confined. 3 Indians came to camp.