nil- ill il thai he cduld iiol sec. Iml lie liad to yo soiiu'wlicrc. So lie. iiliiid 

 sii r.ir as liciii;: alilc In sec a ii.\ I liiiiii was coiiccnicd. (•oiiiiiiciici'd wamltTiiij: 



alidiil ill tiic w Is tiyiiiu' In .1,'cl In liis friciiils. if pnssililc. He wandered 



alioii) ill tile udnds liei-e and lliere. now Caliinj; over lo;;s. now fallini; inlo 

 l»its. aiKJ sn (11. At last lie caiiie In a I ree. He felt of it. 'Ynn are Cedar, ' 

 he addressed il (ail Ihiims had a mind I hen and eniild talk), •■shew me 

 wliieli way In i^n ami ijive me liie direelinn In llie water. Vnii j;rnw iiy 

 tlie lal<e; 



■■'Keep nil irniiii;.' answered Cedar. 



•Sn .Maiiahn li took two nnire steps and fell head-foremost into twenty feet 

 of water ill :i in^x lake. He at onee l)ej;an to flounder about. He swam here 

 and tliere t'lr a eniisideraiile time somewhat towards shore, as he was a 

 i.'nnd swimmer. His head, as lie swam. In-onyht the earihnn head and horns 

 In view. The Indians nii llie sIkmc saw it and supposed it to he a earihnn 

 swimmiiii:. Sn they set cut in Ilieir cannes tn attack it. There was ipiite 

 a chase and many arrows were dispatched at the head id' the snpiiosed 

 lieast : hut .Manahiisli nntswam his pursuers and finally came In shallow 

 water. He then stnnd npriiiht and waded ashore. In his hurry and his not 

 heinj; able to see. he fell down nv(>r several boulders alons the shore. Ho 

 finally fell hoadloim over a la rye rock and struck the caribou skull on his 

 head on another boulder that laid ahead of him in the direction he fell. 

 This rock cracked and broke open the caribou skull and Manabush drew 

 forth his head. He was at once recognized and taken to the village and 

 feasted. 



■•He is our god and lives in the brilliantly colored sun.set sky."" The next 

 ilay found me in Indian village nf .Xett Lake where I took in another grand 

 medicine lodge dance scene, similar tn the one mentioned above. Towai'ds 

 evening I took a canoe aud went out to Picture Island and examined tlie 

 chiseled pictures of the long ago. As I was examining the various ])ictured 

 sc(>nes night closed over the land, and before another day 1 was on my 

 way tn civilization. Rut I liad enjoyed my trip. 



In Xett lake about a quarter of a mile off sluu-e to the north the Indian 

 village of Xett Lake. Koochiching and St. Louis counties. Minnesota (the 

 county line runs thrnugh tlie center of the village), is an island of some- 

 thing like half an acre in area. Its western and simtheni slopes are wnnded 

 with pnplar. bii'cli. elm. ;ind some shrubs and snme viiiy siiecies. There is 

 also some grass and (pute a profusion cd" tinwering idaiits scattered here and 

 there. Its iinrtheastern i>art has an exposure (d" bare ritcks. pitching into 

 th(> lake on that side. Its central ]iart reaches an elevation of some ten feet 

 idinve the surface of the water of the lake. The island is surrounded by 

 rice fields infernungled with cane brakes and flags. excei»t on the south- 

 west where the water is too dei'i» for rice to grow. In the ages past this 

 island, as well as the surrniuuling country, was glaciiited. At the time (»f 

 the glaciation. the northern sloping rocks on the nnrtheastern part of the 

 island were polished to an almost iierfect smnnthness. 



The rock of this island is of the Knnchiching ( Couchiching ) formation, 

 being comi»o.sed of mica schist and gneiss cut by granite intrusions. The 



