20th a Cold fair day Several Indians at the fort to day a miss understanding took place between the two inturpeters on account of their Squars, one of the Squars of
Observed Equal altitudes of the
Altitude given by Sextant at the time of obstn. 31° 40° 15"
Sunday 20th Jany. a pleasant morning the natives bring us considerable corn.
Sunday 20th. I went up with one of the men to the villages. They treated us friendly and gave us victuals. After we were done eating they presented a bowlful to a buffaloe head, saying, "eat that." Their superstitious credulity is so great, that they believe by using the head well the living buffaloe will come and that they will get a supply of meat.
Sunday 20th Jany. 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 buflows head which they worshiped, & Sd. 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 & uncommon Ideas, but verry Ignorant of our forms & customs, but quick & Sensible in their own way & in their own conceit &c &c.
Sunday Janry 20th We still continued to have clear cold weather. some of our Men went up to the 1st
They informed us, that after they had finish'd eating 〈they〉 That the
They are Indians of very Quick apprehension, of anything in their way; and Conceited in themselves to a fault.— This they judged from the 〈first〉 answers, they gave to questions they asked 〈by〉 〈from〉 them; the whole of which was told to our Men, by the Interpreter that they took with them from the Fort,—