The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-03
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 Theodosia Burr :ranklA. Munsey ce. my words sound good in your ears I will send talking paper to the Great Father and tell him that you are his children"
 Deep throated exclamations of ap- proval met this speech. Weucha took the pipe. He arose himself, tall and powerful man, splendidly clad in sav- age fashion, and spoke as the born leader that he also was. He pledged the loyalty of the Sioux and the free dom of the river.
 'I give you the horse you rode this morning." said Weucha to Lewis, Hthe black runner. To you, red haired chief, give the white and black horse that you rode. It is well that chiefs like you should have good horses.
 Tomorrow our people will go a lit tie way with you up the river. We want you for our friends, for we know your medicine is strong. We know that when we show this flag to other tribes-to the Otoes, the Omahas, the Osages- will fall on the ground and knock their heads on the ground, as the black man did when the red headed chief raised it above him.
 "The Great Father has sent us two chiefs who are young, but very wise. They can strike the buffalo. They can speak at the council. Weucha, the Yanktonnais, says that they may go on. We know you will not lose the Trail. We know that you will come pack. You are chiefsr'
 ' CHAPTER XVI. Saeajawea, the Girl Guide. ~1ROM the Sioux country the ex- N plorers. surmounting many diff I dculties, made their way to o the country of the Mandans. Autumn was at hand. Soon it would be winter on the plains. It.was more l than five months since the party had i left St. Louis. The Mandan village l lay at great wilderness crossroads,
 Dr, rather, at the apex of triangle, 1 beyond which none had gone. | Big White, chief of the Mandans
 welcomed the party as friends, for he l was quick to grasp the advantage the white mems goods gave his people ove1 the neighboring tribes and also quick | to understand the virtue of competi tion.
 Brothers" said he, '.you have come | for our beaver and our robes. As fol us, we want powder and ball and more 1 iron hatchets and knives. We have l traded with the Assinihoines, who are ] foolish people, and have taken all their | goods away from them. We have kill. 1 ed the Rees until we are tired of kill. l ing them. The Sioux will not trouble i us If we have plenty of powder and 1 ball. We know that you have come to trade with us. See, the snow is here Light your lodge fires with the Man dans. Stay here until the grass comes i once more."
 And so the exploring expedition went into winter quarters, and log fortress was built. Here they worked and made ready for pushing forward as soon as conditions would permit l One cold winter morning while talk 1 ing over their future plans Lewis re-
 marked to Clark:
 We are at blank wall here. We l lack guide now; that is sure Two interpreters we have, who may or may not be of use, but no one knows the country. But, now, you know our other new interpreter, the sullen chap,
 Charbonneau, that polygamous scamp with two or three Indian wives? ?''
 Yes, and a surly brute he is,'' re piled Clark
 Well, it seems that last summer
 Charbonneau married still another i wife, a girl not over sixteen years of age, I should judge. He bought her.
 She was slave, a captive brought down from somewhere up the river l by war party. She is a pleasant 1 girl and always smiles. She seems friendly to us. See the moccasins she 1 made for me but now. And only had
 to knock her husband down 0nce for
 beating herr'
 l Lucky man!" grinned William Clark. "I have knocked him down half dozen times, and she has made 1 me no moccasins at all. But what 1 then?'
 So lar as l can learn, that Indian
 girl is the only human being here who has ever seen the Stony mountains. The girl says that she was taken cap tive years ago somewhere near the summit of the Stony mountains. Above here a great river comes in, which they call the Yellow Rock river-the 'Ro'- jaune,' Jussaume calls it.. Very well. Many days or weeks journey toward the west this river comes again within a half days march of the Missouri. That is near the summit of the noun tains, and this girls people live there" " By heavens, Merne, you've a genius for getting over new country!'
 Wait. I find the child very bright very clear of mind. And listen, Will, the mind of woman is better for small things than that of a man. They pick up trifes and hang on to them. I'd as soon trust that girl for