The Lewis & Clark Series

Sacajewea and Little Pomp

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10" x 15"	$70.00

Little Pomp
CORP OF DISCOVERY 1803-1806
Capt. Clark August 17th, 1806

a Cool morning gave some powder & Ball to Big White Chief Settled with Touisant Chabono for his Services as an enterpreter the pric of a horse and Lodge' purchased of him for public Service in all amounting to 500$ 33 Vs cents, derected two of the largest of the Canoes be fastened together with poles tied across them So as to make them Study for the purpose of Conveying the Indians and enterpreter and their families we were visited by all the principal Chiefs of the Menetarras to take their leave of us at 2 oClock we left our encampment after takeing leave of Colter who also Set out up the river in Company with Messrs. Dickson & Handcock. we also took our leave of T. Chabono, his Snake Indian wife and their Son Child who had accompanied us on our rout to the pacific Ocean in the Capacity of interpreter and interpretes. T. Chabono wished much to accompany us in the Said Capacity if <he) we could have prevailed the Menetarre Chiefs to dcend the river with us to the U.States, but as none of those chiefs of whoes (set out> language he was Conversent would accompany us, his Services were no longer of use to the U' States and he was therefore discharged and paid up.2 we offered to convey him down to the Illinois if he Chose to go, he declined proceeding on at present, observing that he had no acquaintance or prospects of makeing a liveing below, and must continue to live in the way that he had done.

I offered to take his little Son a butifull promising Child who is 19 months old to which they both himself & wife wer willing provided the Child had been weened, they observed that in one year the boy would be Sufficiently old to leave his mother & he would then take him to me if I would be so freindly as to raise the Child for him in Such a manner as I thought proper, to which I agreed


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