88 NARRATIVE, &c 



This chief appears to be turned of sixty. In stature he is 

 about five feet nine or ten inches, erect and stout, somewhat in- 

 clined to corpulency. He is a native of this lake, of the totem* 

 of the Owasissi, a kind of fish. He observed at my table, at 

 St. MaiVs, four vears ago, that he had been twentv five times 

 on war parties, either as leader or follower, and had escaped 

 without a wound. He was once surrounded by a party of 

 Sioux, with only three companions. They cut their way out 

 killing two men. He was early drawn into intercourse with 

 the British at Fort William, on Lake Superior, where he re- 

 ceived his first medal. This medal w r as taken from him by 

 Lieut. Pike, in 180G. I renewed it, by the largest class of 

 solid silver medals, July 19th, 1828. 



Reciprocating the customary compliment in parting, we em- 

 barked and encamped on a contiguous part of the coast, where 

 we could procure fire wood, and be sure of making an early 

 start on the morrow. 



* Family mark, or coat of arms — a kind of sirnamc. 



