Eight young men soon met him on the sand-bar, but none of them could understand either the Pawnee or Maha interpreter.

They were then addressed in the Sioux language, and answered that they were Tetons, of the band headed by Black Buffaloe, Tahtackasabah.

This was the same who had attempted to stop us in 1804; and being now less anxious about offending so mischievous a tribe, Captain Clark told them that they had been deaf to our councils, had ill-treated us two years ago, and had abused all the whites who had since visited them.

He believed them, he added, to be bad people, and they must therefore return to their companions; for if they crossed over to our camp we would put them to death.

They asked for some corn, which Captain Clark refused; they then requested permission to come and visit our camp, but he ordered them back to their own people.