The great chief, however, informed us that none of the Ricaras could be prevailed on to go with us till the return of the other chief; and that the Chayennes were a wild people, afraid to go.

He invited Captain Clark to his house, and gave him two carrots of tobacco, two beaver-skins, and a trencher of boiled corn and beans.

It is the custom of all the nations on the Missouri to offer to every white man food and refreshment when he first enters their tents." Resuming their voyage, the party reached Tyler's River, where they camped, on the twenty-seventh of August.

This stream is now known as Medicine River, from Medicine Hill, a conspicuous landmark rising at a little distance from the Missouri.

The voyagers were now near the lower portion of what is now known as South Dakota, and they camped in territory embraced in the county of Presho.