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page number 63 Sept. Beckwith to recross the river. He felt quite safe and wanted to talk. I stood it about 10 minutes until I saw some coming around on the right and left and then told Jim that "he must cut his talk short." During this time three or four others has come up and had said "how" and shaken hands. I wanted a couple of them to come over to camp, but they said the whites didn't love the Sioux & would not consent. They said they had been over to the crows & had made a treaty with them & wanted to make peace with the whites through them, and that there was a Crow chief then with them going down to Tongue river to their village, where there were