Fort Mandan (winter) — Patrick Gass: January 4, 1805

% full of skins, buffaloe Pyare ae and horns he the
eC haul
we began to. load the boat.
‘Friday 5th. This was a Pane ee and the sat
a them aboard our craft, that we mighs be ready to
| _ continue our voyage…
If this brief Journal should Gappen’ to be preser-
pr ; Pome, readers will perhaps expect, that,. after
Gtr Jong friendly intercourse with these Indians, a-
a . Mong whom we have spent the winter; our ac-
‘and the information we received relative t to several
‘count of the fair sex of the Missouri ; aod entertain
them with narratives of feats of love as well as of
arms. pices’ we could furnish ¢ a le a Humber
we were ‘iseeds in preparing our craft, for a re- ce
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| “blew hard and cold from the N. W. We tock all
our goods, stores and baggage out, divided and put —
fd be. ever thought wortby of appearing in |
“‘quaintance with those nations lower down the river
ether nations, we ought to be prefers Dhaene: oO
we are about to renew our voyage, to give some ac-.
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Dh “oath of as gent ine meats a size as me Se
cumstances “will make practicable. ” It may be obser-
generally that chastity i is not very highly esteem- :
os these people, and that the severe and loath- —
some ¢ effects. of certain French principles are not un-—
common among them. ‘The fact is, that the women
are generaily considered an article of traffic and in-
– dulgencies are sold at a very” ‘moderate price. As” a
proof of this I will just mention, that for an old to
“Daceo as one of our men was inlet of the 10
von the printed as well as sin the hepa cities ¢ of 3
: ished nations. –
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theurey. 6th. Phe Hage was clear. ‘and siheacat :
“This morning we heard that some of the Rickarecs
~ had come up to the Mandan villages. Our interpre=
ter and some of the men were sent over to ascertain
the truth of the report; and we were detained all
_ day waiting theirreturn. — _