MALLERY.] BATTLES, 557 
The canoe k indicates the manner of hunting along the shore and the 
stream connecting the lakes, /, m, and o. 
The Ojibwa frequently spent part of a season at the middle lake, m, 
and at another time had been engaged in a skirmish with the Sioux 
farther north, on the small lake indicated at 0. The Ojibwa had been 
scattered about, but when the attack was made by the Sioux the former 
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Fic. 784.—Battle of 1797. Ojibwa. 
rapidly came to the rescue both by boat, p, and on foot, g, so that the 
enemy was gradually driven off. 
In the first mentioned battle 70 Sioux were killed, their bodies being 
subsequently buried in the lake ly cutting holes through the ice. The 
openings are shown at 7, the lines representing bodies ready to be cast 
down into the water. 
Baron Lahontan (b) says: 
When a Party of (Algonkin) Savages have routed their enemies in any Place what- 
soever, the Conquerors take care to pull the Bark off the Trees for the height of five 
or six Foot in all Places where they stop in returning to their own Country; and in 
honour of their Victory paint certain images with Coal pounded and beat up with 
