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of Fond du Lac. The Sandy Lake Indians had been lately 

 reproached, as it were, for their pacific character, by hearing 

 the Leech Lake war party passing so near to them. (This par- 

 ty went up Long Prairie River.) He hoped the same advice 

 given to Chippewas, would be given to Sioux. If the Sioux 

 would not come over the lines, they, (the Chippewas,) would not 

 go over them. He thought the lines might have been different- 

 ly run. Their hunters always came out of Sauc river, which 

 had been given up to the Sioux. But as they had been agreed 

 to, by their old Chiefs, who were now gone, (he referred par- 

 ticularly to the late Kadawabida,'and Babisikundadi,) it would 

 be best to let them remain. 



Nittum Egabowa, or the Front Standing Man. confined his 

 speech to personal topics. He said the medal he wore, and by 

 virtue of which, he claimed the Chieftainship, had been presen- 

 ted to his deceased father, at the treaty of Prairie du Chien. 

 He presented a pipe. 



Ascertaining the trading house of a Mr. Baker to be near 

 our encampment, after closing the council, we embarked and de- 

 scended the Mississippi about eighteen miles to Prairie Piercee. 

 Intelligence had reached this place a few days before, by way 

 of St. Peter's, of open hostilities among the Saucs and Foxes, 

 and we here saw a western paper, giving an account of an ac- 

 tion with the militia on River Rock, the murder of St. Vrain, 

 the agent for these tribes, and other particulars indicating the 

 frontier to be irretrievably plunged into an Indian war. 



At this point, (i. e. the mouth of the De Corbeau) a remote 

 point in our northwestern geography, the route, of which the 

 preceeding sketches give an outline, intersects that of the expe- 

 dition to the sources of the Mississippi, under the direction of 

 the present Secretary of War, Gov. Cass, in 1820. And in or- 

 der that no part of the present volume mery be considered as 

 going over grounds pre-occupied by the details embraced in our 

 "Narrative Journal of Travels," the account of the present ex- 

 pedition is here terminated. 



