The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls.
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