This chief, it will be recollected, was given a flag and a medal by the two captains when they passed up the river on their way to the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast.

The flag was now brought on and hoisted on the lodge of Black Cat.

On that occasion, also, the commanders of the expedition had given the Indians a number of useful articles, among them being a portable corn-mill.

But the Indians had other uses for metal, and they had taken the mill apart and used the iron for the purpose of making barbs for their arrows.

From the Omahas, who were located here, the white men received a present of as much corn as three men could carry.
Black Cat also gave them a dozen bushels of corn.
Their days of starvation and famine were over.