Fort Mandan (winter) — Joseph Whitehouse: January 20, 1805

Some men went up to the villages, they informed us that
they all used them verry well. gave them pleanty to eat, &
when they had done eating they gave a bowl of victuls to a
bufFalows head which they worshiped, & S? Eat this So that the
live ones may come in that we may git a Supply of meat.
Some of them & indeed the most of them have Strange & un-
common Ideas, but verry Ignorant of our forms & customs,
but quick & Sensible in their own way’& in their own con-
ceit &c &c. ^
^ There is nearly half a page blank after this entry, across which a line is drawn to
indicate the break, in time. — Ed.
HAPTER VI
FROM NEAR MARTHA’S RIVER TO THE
MUSSELSHELL
May 1-22, 1805