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Thursday 27th Sept 1804 we stayed here this day Capt Lewis and some of the party went over to the Indians camps their lodges are about 80 in number and contain about 10 souls? each. the most of them women and children the women are employed dressing buffaloe hides for to make them selves cloathing and to make their lodges unclear they are or appear as yet to be the most friendly people I ever Saw but they will steal? and plunder if they can git an oppertunity. they are verry dirty vessils they carry their water in is the stomach? of their fauns? which they kill and in the Same manner unclear they take them out of the animals they gave us different kinds of victuals to eat. Some of it I never Saw the like before. about 15 days ago they had a battle with the mahars they killed 65 men and took 25 women prisoners.They took the 65 of the mahars scalps? and had them unclear on small? poles which the women held in their hands when they danced We say them have one dance this evening they kept it up untill one oclock dancing round