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pewa river and its tributaries, 1376; the St. Croix and its 

 tributaries, 895 ; Grand Portage, and Rainy Lake, 476 ; to 

 which latter may perhaps be added, 249, making, with the for- 

 mer estimates, 5000 souls. 



In travelling through this lake, in boats or canoes, the shores 

 are followed round. The distance from Point Iroquois to the 

 entrance of the St. Louis river of Fond du Lac, is estimated at 

 490 miles, exclusive of the journey around the peninsula of 

 Keweena, which is ninety miles more. The general course is 

 nearly due west, in consequence of which, the climate is deemed 

 to be decidedly more favorable to agriculture at its head than at 

 its outlet. Traders, who course round the peninsula in boats, 

 take, on an average, twenty-six days in the voyage. Fifteen 

 were employed on the present expedition. Indians were met 

 at various points, and wherever it was practicable, they were 

 vaccinated. The surgeon employed on that service reported 699 

 vaccinations on the voyage through the lake, and experienced 

 no difficulty in getting them to submit to the process. 



At the mouth of the Ontonagon, where the party arrived 

 on the 19th of June, a band of Indians w T as encamped on its 

 way out, from Ottawa lake. Mozojeed, their chief, confirmed 

 a report of the murder of an engage, or under clerk, named 

 Brunet, by a Chippewa, named Waba Annimikee, or the White 

 Thunder. He said that he had concurred with the traders in ap- 

 prehending the Indian, and bringing him out to be delivered up 

 to the Indian agent. But that he had effected his escape on the 

 Mauvais Portage. He promised to exert himself to re-apprehend 

 him, the following year. And he rigidly performed his promise. 

 In July, 1833, the White Thunder was delivered by Mozojeed 

 and his followers, to the civil authorities. He was tried for the 

 murder at the U. S. circuit court holden at Michilimackinac, 

 in that month. Counsel being assigned to defend him, every 

 advantage was secured to him that the laws provide. His own 

 confessions were proved, to substantiate the murder, and on 

 these he was convicted. 



