Down Missouri, approaching Mandan villages — Patrick Gass: August 15, 1806
The party remained in camp throughout the day, waiting to learn whether any of the chiefs would agree to travel downriver with them. The chiefs needed time to hold councils among themselves before giving an answer. Meanwhile, the two hunters who had been left upriver rejoined the group. They persuaded one member of the party to enter into a hunting partnership with them and head back up the Missouri and Yellowstone (Jaune) Rivers to trap and hunt.
continued here all day, to ascertain whether any of the chiefs
would go down with us or not.— They had to hold councils
among themselves, and we had to wait for their answers.
The two hunters we left up the river came down, staid with
us here, and got one of our party to join in partnership with
them, and to return up the rivers Missouri and Jaune to
hunt.
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We stayed here all day, to find out whether any of the chiefs would go down with us or not. They had to hold councils among themselves, and we had to wait for their answers. The two hunters we left up the river came down, stayed with us here, and got one of our party to join in partnership with them, and to return up the Missouri and Jaune (Yellowstone) rivers to hunt.
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