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"Tripping lightly into the willow lodge, Sacajawea was beginning to interpret, when lifting her eyes to the chief, she recognized her own brother, Cameahwait. She ran to his side, threw her blanket over his head, and wept upon his bosom.

"Sacajawea,^[1] too, was a Princess, come home now to her Mountain Kingdom."

Suffering. The Indians^[2] rendered valuable service to Lewis and Clark by trading horses to them for trinkets and by manifesting much good will toward them in other ways. But there were many difficulties to be overcome. One of the immediate difficulties was the long distance they had to travel in a northwest direction over an unknown route to the Clearwater River before they could proceed by boats westward. Also the party at times endured much suffering brought on principally by the scarcity and inferior quality of food and by unbalanced rations?-their diet being roots, horse meat, dogs, crows, and wolves in sparse supply. Their Journal says: "Captain Lewis and two of the men were taken ill last evening, and today he could hardly sit on his horse, while others were obliged to be put on horseback; and some from weakness and pain were forced to lie down alongside the road. The weather was very hot and oppressive to the party, most of whom were complaining of sickness. Our condition indeed, made it necessary to husband
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↑ In a letter to J. Q. Bowlby, of Astoria, Oregon, dated August 3, 1905, Newton J. Brown, postmaster of Landor, Wyoming, wrote: "I myself have seen Sacajawea. She died about the year 1884, and was buried near the Episcopal Church at Shoshone Agency."
↑ To indicate the struggle for existence among the natives in that locality at that time, the following is taken from the Lewis and Clark Journal: "Drewer, one of the white hunters had killed a deer. When the Indians reached the place where Drewer had thrown the entrails, they all dismounted in confusion and ran tumbling over each other like famished dogs. Each tore away whatever part he could, and instantly began to eat it. Some had the liver, some the kidneys-in short, no part on which we are accustomed to look with disgust escaped them."

[1] In a letter to J. Q. Bowlby, of Astoria, Oregon, dated August 3, 1905, Newton J. Brown, postmaster of Landor, Wyoming, wrote: "I myself have seen Sacajawea. She died about the year 1884, and was buried near the Episcopal Church at Shoshone Agency."

[2] To indicate the struggle for existence among the natives in that locality at that time, the following is taken from the Lewis and Clark Journal: "Drewer, one of the white hunters had killed a deer. When the Indians reached the place where Drewer had thrown the entrails, they all dismounted in confusion and ran tumbling over each other like famished dogs. Each tore away whatever part he could, and instantly began to eat it. Some had the liver, some the kidneys-in short, no part on which we are accustomed to look with disgust escaped them."

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