5.30 AM. Camp 131/2 m. W. of Woody Mt. B. 26.62 calm clear
T. 28" Hoar frost on grass

8 PM. Woody Mt. B. 26.51 calm. Partly clear
T. 47"

Sept 18. Morning wet & cold, & raw & chilly all day though clearing towards evening. Reading & getting various little things put to rights. Blacksmiths at work re-shooing horses &c. Crompton & two or three men started out to put the few last tablets in the mounds S. of here. Went with Boswell to a half breeds called Movrin & affected an exchange of one of the commission horses for a poney, three good carts, & ten dollars, which seemed to please both parties.

Visited the Indians & went into one of their lodges. The tipis large & made of very well dressed skins, looking from a distance as white as tents, but internally yellow from smoke. That of the chief painted black at the top & the projecting poles each ornamented with a tuft of buffalo hair in imitation of a scalp. The fire was built in the centre, on the ground, & the beds & seats arranged round it. A very few sticks serve for cooking & keeping the lodge warm. Generally pretty clean. Door closed by a piece of skin mounted on a hoop. Skins of tipi stretched round the poles & met in front being fastened together with wooden