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35 that purpose I placed myself opposite to her - but this was a breach of Dacotah etiquette not to be permitted for her gestures & expression soon informed me that I must turn my back on the ladies, & substitute the contemplation of the surrounding scenery & the back of her half-breed son who sat in the bow and assisted the women in navigating our craft. Swiftly sped the light canoe altho' stemming the current of the impetuous Mississippi now swelled to it largest size, - But the skill of the voyageurs directed our bow beneath the bending willows and meeting-boughs overhead, into the quiet sloughs between the Islands & main shore - here we sped more rapidly thro' this forest? canal, passed trees hurled by lightning & storm into the water,