prefuring

Updated: May 3, 2025

I Can't lern whether those Indians trade with white people or Inds. below for the Beeds & copper, which they are So fond of- They are nearly necked, prefuring beeds to anything- Those Beeds they trafick with Indians Still higher up this river for Skins robes &c. &c.

William Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806