Council Bluffs, Iowa (first council site) — Patrick Gass: July 30, 1804

out early, and the hunters met us with a deer. At 9 we
came to some timber land at the foot of a high bluff and en-
camped there in order to wait for the Indians. At the top of
the bluff is a large handsome prairie, and a large pond, or
small lake about two miles from camp on the south side of
the river. Two of our hunters went out and killed an animal,
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called a prarow, about the size of a ground hog and nearly of
the same colour. It has a head similar to that of a dog, short
legs and large claws on its fore feet; some of the claws are an
inch and an half long. Our hunters again went out, but did
not return this day.