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 have meat enough—and that's the main question. All right, Peter. You can come as far as the Mandan village, anyway. And in the spring we'll see."

Whereupon Peter resolved that he would make himself useful, so that they would take him clear to the Pacific Ocean, which lay, according to Patrick Gass and the other men, many, many days' travel, far beyond the western mountains.