The dancers and musicians were presented with several buffalo-robes and a large quantity of Indian corn.

The cold grew more intense, and on the tenth of the month the mercury stood at forty degrees below zero.

Some of the men were badly frost-bitten, and a young Indian, about thirteen years old, who had been lost in the snows, came into the fort.

The journal says:-- "His father, who came last night to inquire after him very anxiously, had sent him in the afternoon to the fort; he was overtaken by the night, and was obliged to sleep on the snow with no covering except a pair of antelope-skin moccasins and leggins, and a buffalo-robe.

His feet being frozen, we put them into cold water, and gave him every attention in our power.