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the meanins; of the remainder, which he did not readily 

 understand, being conveyed to him through the Sauk lan- 

 guage, he repeated aboutone-half of them with a slight va- 

 riation, frequently no other than the addition of a termina- 

 tion in rr/, which appeared to be a sort of dialect. Some of 

 the words he seemed not to recognise at all, even after their 

 supposed meaning had been explained to him through the 

 interpreter. 



Major Long, whose health had been somewhat impaired 

 for a few days previous, was so severely affected, on the 

 15th, with fever and sick stomach, that we began to ap- 

 prehend that his indisposition would prove a serious one, 

 but the timely application of medical assistance fortunately 

 relieved him. 



Wennebea, of whom we have preserved a very good 

 likeness, taken by Mr. Seymour, (plate III. middle figure,) 

 is a young and good looking Indian, whose face denotes 

 more cheerfulness than is generally observed in the coun- 

 tenance of man in the savage life. He seems to be of a 

 lively, cheerful disposition, judging from the laughter 

 which frequently animated his conversation with Le Sel- 

 lier; to us he was always uniformly polite and obliging. 

 His dress consisted, as usual with the Indians of this coun- 

 try, of a blanket thrown over his shoulders, and reaching 

 to his ankles; a breech-cloth of blue broad-cloth; buckskin 

 leggings and moccassins of the same material. The leg- 

 gings are very similar to a Chinese garment that supplies 

 the place of pantaloons; they reach up to the hips, covering 

 the whole limb, and are secured to thongs tied to a leather 

 belt around the waist. Garters, generally very much orna- 

 mented with porcupine quills, beads, and other fanciful ar- 

 ticles, support the leggings immediately below the knee. 

 His pipe was stuck into the plaited hair which he wore on 



