I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.