Arikara villages near present-day Mobridge — Patrick Gass: October 8, 1804
The expedition traveled along a shallow, sandbar-filled stretch of river, passing high land on the south side and bottoms on the north. They passed Slate Run on the south side, while two hunters went ashore to the north to search for game. At noon they stopped for dinner at the Marapa River, 120 yards wide on the south side, where the hunters rejoined them empty-handed. After passing hills, a 25-yard creek, and traveling several more miles, they reached an island home to a band of Rickarees and camped at its upper end.
early: passed high land on the south side and bottom on the
north. The river here is very shallow and full of sand bars.
We passed a run on the south side called slate run. Two of
our hunters went out to some timber land on the north side
to look for game. At 12 we came to ariver on the south side,
120 yards wide, called the Marapa, where we halted for dinner.
The hunters came up, but had killed nothing. We passed a
long range of hills on the north side; about two miles from
the Marapa we passed a creek 25 yards wide; and about four
miles further came to an island, where one band of the Rick-
arees live, and encamped at the upper end.
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Early in the day we passed high land on the south side and bottomland on the north. The river here is very shallow and full of sandbars. We passed a stream on the south side called Slate Run. Two of our hunters went out to some timbered land on the north side to look for game. At 12 we came to a river on the south side, 120 yards wide, called the Marapa, where we stopped for dinner. The hunters came up, but had killed nothing. We passed a long range of hills on the north side; about two miles from the Marapa we passed a creek 25 yards wide; and about four miles further we came to an island, where one band of the Rickarees (Arikaras) lives, and we camped at the upper end.
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