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8 mo 21 4 found a little below the throat some warmth, she

                                   was then taken in and laid before the fire, and
                                   being attended to she thaw'd &came to.
                                       The Indians say that money is the white peoples
                                   treasure, which often fails, but game is their
                                   treasure, and if they kill one year, the good Spirit
                                   causes an increase for the next, so that by his
                                   bounties, they receive fresh supplies.
                22       5           The wind S West, so that the Vessel keeps the course
                                   at about 6 knots an hour, which is very pleasing
                                   after beating about the lake for 4 or 5 days without
                                   getting much forward.
                                        A person who was 14 years among the Indians
                                   gives a very pleasing, edifying account of the harmony
                                   that prevails among them, in their hunting matches
                                   gathering their crops & other employments, that they
                                   always give thanks to the great Spirit when they
                                   have had success, & when not they hope for better
                                   and he says they devote more time in common
                                   to religious worship than the white people do, &
                                   observe great solemnity, taking particular Care to
                                   suppress every kind of lightness---In short, from what
                                   I have seen and heard of the Indians, I believe there are
                                   no people who give thanks, and pray to the great Spirit
                                   more frequently, nor with more sincerity that they do,
                                   and if true religion consists in the devotion of the
                                   Heart, they are not void of it, therefore the term
                                   Heathen I conceive to be improperly applied to them
            29          5              Left Nase Schooley's avaluable family, where we
                                   had been hospitably & well accommodated, and rode
                                   about eight miles to Major Powell's on the bank
                                   of the river, where a meeting was appointed, which
                                   was considerably large and solid, and we parted with