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been intended to have Chiefs Day-bway-wain-dung, Bay-baum-we- 

 che-waish-kung, Mah-jish-kung and May-zhuc-ke-aune-quaib ac- 

 company Mr. Pequette; but the Indians quarrelled at Orr railway 

 station, and Ain-ay-way-way-aush forced himself in in place of 

 May-zhuc-ke-aune-quaib and went to Washington in his stead. 

 The Indians had collected money to pay the expenses of the re- 

 spective chiefs, and the forced withdrawal of May-zhuc-ke-aune- 

 quaib caused that chief to withdraw the money appropriated to pay 

 his expenses; but Ain-ay-way-way-aush went anyway, trusting to 

 luck to get back home. 



Arriving at Washington, Ain-ay-way-way-aush and Bay-baum- 

 we-che-waish-kung got drunk and blew out the gas in the jet over 

 their bed in their sleeping apartments, on the night of March 3, 

 and were consequently found dead in their rooms on the morning 

 of the 4th. The honorable commissioner furnished coffins for the 

 deceased Indians, and also paid the expenses of the survivors and 

 the interpreter back to Orr, our railroad station; and, on arriving 

 at the agency, the bodies of the deceased chiefs were interred, after 

 a funeral held over them in the government schoolhouse by Rev- 

 erend Pequette, the interpreter mentioned above. At the close of 

 the funeral the coffins were opened, notwithstanding the objections 

 of many of the old timers, and the remains were viewed. It was a 

 scene to be remembered. Not a tear was shed; not a word was 

 uttered by a single person, as one after another passed around the 

 -coffins, till the wife of the aged Bay-baum-we-che-waish-kung (he 

 who had signed the treaty of the Chippewa Indians at Washington 

 in 1866) came to view the dead. She put some pouches of medi- 

 cine and some eatables and some tobacco in the coffin of her hus- 

 ;band. Then, without shedding a tear, she exclaimed, addressing 

 the dead: "I told you when you went to Washington that you 

 should not drink whisky. Now see — see; you bring back your 

 poor dead soul to me." Her remarks closed the viewing the dead. 

 At the graveyard there was also no outward signs of feeling over 

 the death of the chiefs. After the burial was completed the usual 

 ^'medicines," eatables, a cup of water and some tobacco were placed 

 on the graves of each. 



The two other things that might be mentioned with this burying 

 of the chiefs is that a special bill was passed by Congress to pay 

 the transportation and funeral expenses of these chiefs and the re- 

 turn expenses of the survivors of the party. Also, with the bury- 

 ing of these two chiefs the Bois Fort Indians started a graveyard 

 in which to bury their dead. Previously they had buried their 



