Historic Diaries: Floyd 1804
August 3, 1804
Editor's Note:
Note: Lewis and Clark informed the Otos of the change from Spanish to U.S. administration of the area and gave the chief peace medals with Jefferson's profile on them. Fifteen years later another council of the Oto with the Stephen Long expedition appeared as an illustration in the first volume of Edwin James' account of that trip (see American Journeys document AJ-144a). Today Fort Atkinson State Historic Park commemorates these visits and the fort built there in 1820.
Friday august 3dth
the Council was held and all partes was agreed. the Captens Give them meney presentes. thes is the ottoe and the Missouries. the Missouries is a verry Small nathion, the ottoes is a verry Large nathion So thay Live in one village on the Plate River. after the Council was over we took ouer Leave of them and embarked at 3 oclock P. m under a Jentell Brees from the South Est. Sailed made 6 miles. Campt on the South Side, the Land Low, that on the N. prarie Land.
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