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CHAPTER XVIII. 



The expedition traces the west shores of Lake Michigan southerly to Chicago — 

 Outline of the journey along this coast — Sites of Manitoowoc, Sheboigan, Mil- 

 waukie, Racine, ami Chicago, being the present chief towns and cities of Wis- 

 consin anJ Illinois on the west shores of that Lake — Final reorganization of 

 the party and departure from Chicago. 



Two days spent in preparations to reorganize the expedition, 

 enabled it to continue its explorations. For tlie purpose of 

 tracing the western and northern shores of Green Bay, and the 

 northern shores of Lake Michigan, a sub-expedition was jBtted 

 out, under Mr. Trowbridge, our sub-topographer, who was ac- 

 companied by Mr. J. D. Doty, Mr. Alex. R. Chase, and James 

 Riley, the Chippewa interpreter. The auxiliary Indians, who 

 had, thus far, attended us in a separate canoe, were rewarded for 

 their services, furnished with provisions to reach their homes, 

 and dismissed. The escort of soldiers under Lieut. Mackay, 

 L". S. A., were returned to their respective companies at Fort 

 Iloward and Camp Smith. The Chippewa cliief, laha Waicash- 

 hash, or the Buck, who belonged to Michilimackinac, went with 

 Mr. Trowbridge, together with Jo Parks, the intelligent Shawnee 

 captive, and assimilated Shawnee of Waughpekennota,* Ohio. 

 The Ottowa chief, Kewaygooshkum, of Grand River, took the 

 rest of the party in a separate canoe to their destination. Our 

 collections in natural history were shipped in the schooner De- 



* Wacghpekexnota. This place was then the residence of the Shawnee tribe, 

 under the Prophet Elksattawa, of war memory, the celebrated bi-other of Tecumseh, 

 who, seeing the intrusive tread of the Americans, headed, in 1827, the first explor- 

 ing party of the tribe to the west of the Mississippi, where they finally settled. After 

 living twenty-seven years at this spot, they found themselves within the newly- 

 erected ten-itory of Kansas, and sold their surplus lands to the U. States by a treaty 

 concluded at Washington in ^L^y, 1854, the said Parks being at this time first chief 

 of the Shawnee tribe. 



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