The men go naked and wear their hair short; they pierce their noses, from which, as well as from their ears, hang beads....

Their cabins are made of bark, and are long and wide.

They sleep at the two ends, which are raised two feet above the ground.

They know nothing of the beaver, and their wealth consists in the skins of wild cattle.

They never see snow in their country, and recognize the winter only through the rains." The expedition had passed the confluence of the Missouri and that of the Ohio, and had finally reached the place where the Arkansas River enters the Mississippi.