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the Red Lake Creek is located the 

 Indian village of Red Lake. It con- 

 tains a pool hall, two general stores, 

 a picture show, a dance hall where 

 the young folks one-step, waltz and 

 the old men do not do the pow-wow, 

 for the Government tries to do away 

 with that sort of a dance, these enter- 

 prises all owned and operated by In- 

 dians together with the hotel and auto 

 bus line. One can drive for five 

 miles down to Redby where the rail- 

 road station is and see Indian farms 

 all the way. He also passes the Fair 

 Grounds where once a year the Gov- 

 ernment people hold a Fair and there 

 is a general gathering of the tribes. 

 Or one may drive in the other direc- 

 tion down along the lake shore and 

 see farms in that direction. Here, too 

 he passes the Catholic Church and 

 school and the Indian grave yard, an 

 interesting looking place with its 

 little coup-like houses over each grave. 

 After a very pleasant sojourn we 

 set out for our homeward trip one 

 afternoon and at five o'clock we were 

 again at the Outlet, having complete- 

 ly circumscribed the lake. We knew 

 we had no show for a mooring from 

 now on until we should reach Nep- 

 tune and once started we felt we had 

 to complete that much of our journey 

 before putting up for the night. A 

 heavy storm arose. The sky became 

 overcast early. It became so dark we 

 could not see the course of the river. 

 Our head light served us well. At ten 

 o'clock amidst the roll of thunder and 

 the approaching storm, we pulled up 

 to the dock at Neptune with the lady 

 of the house cautiously awaiting our 

 approach with a loaded shot gun. The 

 men folks had been away all day cut- 

 ting hay at some far distance with a 

 scythe and had not yet returned home. 

 The lady had been troubled that af- 

 ternoon with drunken Indians and she 

 thought they had returned with fire 



brands when she saw the stream of 

 light from our lamp playing back and 

 forth on the buildings. She felt much 

 relieved, although at that time the 

 man of the place returned. We se- 

 cured the boat and fastened down its 

 curtains, and with permission thought 

 to sleep inside because of the storm. 

 It was the same story of the night 

 with the Sweede farmer the week be- 

 fore. "Yours truly" sought the com- 

 forts of the boat despite the storm, 

 while Bud snored on. He missed me 

 at daybreak and came down only to 

 disturb my peaceful slumbers in the 

 boat where I was free from bed bugs. 

 The balance of our trip to Thief 

 River Falls was uneventful. Suffice 

 it to say it was made down stream 

 from the lake at the rate of seven and 

 one half miles per hour as compared 

 with five miles per hour going up. We 

 spent one night in Thief River Falls 

 and the next day saw us home. Thus 

 ends a story of a long to be remember- 

 ed trip and any one desiring such an 

 outing can make no mistake in repeat- 

 ing our experiences. 



L. E. Healey. 



To the Smithsonian Institution 



Capt. T. W. Richards, U. S. N. has 

 been assigned to the Command of the 

 new Naval Hospital established by the 

 Government on Ward's Island, New 

 York Harbor. This hospital has a ca- 

 pacity of a thousand beds and we be- 

 lieve will function entirely satisfac- 

 torily under the command of so good 

 an Oologist as Capt. Richards. He 

 has been a continuous subscriber to 

 the Oologist since Vol. I Number 1, 

 January 1, 1884. 



The very large collection of eggs 

 owned by Capt. Richards (something 

 over 1200 species) including many ex- 

 ceedingly rare foreign sets and sev- 

 eral thousand eggs from Australia has 

 been deposited by him in the National 



