Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 2 . eBlackfoot he determined to leave the Missouri at thevillage of the Ricaras, purchase horses, and cross themountains to the southward, near the sources of thePlatte and Yellowstone, being the route by whichClarke had returned. A fright from the Indians anda bloodless quarrel with Lisa, who shortly afterwardovertook them, were the chief incidents prior to theirarrival at their point of debarkation. Just before reaching the Ricaras village on the 11thof June, the two companies camped as usual at a little 182 ASTOR OVERLAND EXPEDITION*. dist
Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 2 . eBlackfoot he determined to leave the Missouri at thevillage of the Ricaras, purchase horses, and cross themountains to the southward, near the sources of thePlatte and Yellowstone, being the route by whichClarke had returned. A fright from the Indians anda bloodless quarrel with Lisa, who shortly afterwardovertook them, were the chief incidents prior to theirarrival at their point of debarkation. Just before reaching the Ricaras village on the 11thof June, the two companies camped as usual at a little 182 ASTOR OVERLAND EXPEDITION*. distance from .each other, both still nursino* a sullenreserve. Through the magnanimity of Lisa, at thecouncil held with the Ricaras next day, the suspicionsand coldness of Hunt were in a measure to procure sufficient horses from the Ricaras,Hunt gladly accepted the offer of Lisa to send to theMissouri Companys fort, at the village of the Man-dans, one hundred and fifty miles above, and bringdown the requisite number, taking his pay in such. Hunts Route. merchandise as might be easily spared. Here thenaturalists left the party, Bradbury returning to StLouis with Breckenridge, who was with Lisas party,and who, like Bradbury, subsequently published anaccount of this journey, and Nuttall remaining withLisa. Having disposed of his boats and all superfluousbaggage, on the 18th of July, with eighty-two wellpacked horses, most of the men being on foot,1 Hunt 1 The veteran trappers and voyageurs of Lisas party shook their headsas their comrades set out, and took leave of them as of doomed men; andeven Lisa himself gave it as his opinion, after the travellers had departed,that they would never reach the shores of the Pacific, but would perishwith hunger in the wilderness, or be cut off by the savages. Irvings Astoria,221. GREEN RIVER AND BEYOND. 183 and part}7 left the Ricaras village and the MissouriRiver. Their line of march lay first toward the north-west, but soon changed
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