“… the Scioues Camps are handsom of a Conic form Covered with Buffalow Roabs Painted different colours and all compact & handsomly arranged, ...a Fat Dog was presented as a mark of their Great respect for the party of which they partook hartily and thought it good and well flavored.”

September 7, 1804 William Clark ... discovered a Village of Small animals that burrow in the grown (those animals are Called by the french Petite Chien) Killed one and Caught one live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole we attempted to dig to the beds of one of those animals, ...