290 MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 



the derivation of the names of fish as used in popular 

 nomenclature will take down their volumes of Forest and 

 Stream, and look at the articles on the name of masca- 

 longe, maskinonje, etc., they will find all that is known 

 of the Indian name from which the various spellings are 

 derived. See Vol. XXVI., page 149, March 18, 1886; 

 and Vol. XXVL, page 268, October 28, 1886. 



From our new camp on the shore of a nameless lake 

 I could see the wigwam of my new friend on the other 

 side, about half a mile off, and after getting things in 

 shape I went over to him. His wigwam was a typical 

 Ojibway residence, made of skins laid over many poles, 

 which came together at the top, where there was an open- 

 ing for the smoke to go out. It was circular in form, 

 much like the cumbrous Sibley tent which some of our 

 troops used in 1862. On the outside there were records 

 of hunts or fights in black and red pigments, which could 

 be read by those versed in their pictorial histories, but 

 which were a huckleberry beyond my persimmon. A 

 skin flap kept out the cold; a small fire in the middle 

 diffused all the heat it had to spare, and a goodly portion 

 of it went out with the smoke. They made small fires 

 of twigs and squatted over them, freezing one side while 

 warming the other, and said that ours were so hot that a 

 man could not get near them to warm himself; but I no- 

 ticed that many nights our big fires were patronized by 

 travelling Indians to sleep by, instead of making small 

 ones for themselves. Did you ever notice that man is 

 the only animal which lies with his feet to the fire? If 

 you haven't observed this, just look at your dog bake his 

 head under the stove. 



I was invited inside. Besides the flavor of smoke 

 from burning wood there were several other perfumes 

 which you never smelled in a barber's shop. Mentally 



