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seventy-two days, and travelled a line of country estimated to be 

 two thousand three hundred and eight miles. I have now the 

 honor to report to you the route pursued, the means employed to 

 accomplish the object, and such further measures as appear to me 

 to be necessary to give effect to what has been done, and to insure 

 a lasting peace between the two tribes. 



Reasons existed for not extending the visit to the Chippewa 

 bands on the extreme Upper Mississippi, on Red Lake, and Red 

 River, and the River De Corbeau. After entering Lake Superior, 

 and traversing its southern shores to Point Chegoimegon, and the 

 adjacent cluster of islands, I ascended the Mauvaise River to a 

 portage of 8f miles into the Kaginogumac, or Long Water Lake. 

 This lake is about eight miles long, and of very irregular width. 

 Thence, by a portage of 280 yards, into Turtle Lake ; thence, by 

 a portage of 1,075 yards, into Clary's Lake, so called ; thence, by 

 a portage of 425 yards, into Lake Polyganum ; and thence, by a 

 portage of 1,050 yards, into the Namakagon River, a branch of 

 the River St. Croix of the Upper Mississippi. The distance from 

 Lake Superior to this spot is, by estimation, 124 miles. 



"We descended the Kamakagon to the Pukwaewa, a rice lake, 

 and a Chippewa village of eight permanent lodges, containing a 

 population of 53 persons, under a local chief called Odabossa. We 

 found here gardens of corn, potatoes, and pumpkins, in a very 

 neat state of cultivation. The low state of the water, and the 

 consequent difliculty of the navigation, induced me to leave the 

 provisions and stores at this place, in charge of Mr. Woolsey, with 

 directions to proceed (with part of the men, and the aid of the 

 Indians) to Lac Courtonelle, or Ottowa Lake, and there await my 

 arrival. I then descended the Namakagon in a light canoe, to its 

 discharge into the St. Croix, and down the latter to Yellow River, 

 the site of a trading-post and an Indian village, where I had, by 

 runners, appointed a council. In this trip I was accompanied by 

 Mr. Johnson, sub-agent, acting as interpreter, and by Dr. Hough- 

 ton, adjunct professor of the Rensselaer school. We reached 

 Yellow River on the 1st of August, and found the Indians assem- 

 bled. After terminating the business of the council (of which I 

 shall presently mention the results), I reascended the St. Croix 

 and the ISTamakagon, to the portage which intervenes between the 



