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at most he found a little below the throat some warmth, she was then taken in and laid before the fire, and being attended to she thawed & 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.
    The wind S West, so that the [?] keeps the [?] 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 fo 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, and 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 than 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 applyd to them.
   Left Nose Schooley's a valuable family, where we had been hospitably & well accomodated, 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