iSAKKATlYi; AT. j;j;, 



io Hip Bone, # a term by which the river itself Is (by them) 



gnatcd. 

 This river is a post of trade, containing a population esti- 

 mate! at three hundred and eighty-two souls. The lands are 

 fertile, and afford in connection with Ottawa Luke, and the ad- 

 jacent country, a good location fbr a mission and school. The 

 river orig the \\< ad of Long River of the Red Cedar 



i rk of the Chippewa, to which there is a canoe portage. It 



inds at unequal distances, beginning at its source, into Lac 

 i - ix, Ri Lake, and Yellow Lake. Wild rice is one of its 

 productions, and is among the means of subsistence on which 

 the natives rely. Its natural history is further deserving of re- 

 mark, as yielding abundantly, univalve shells of a fine size. 

 The purple winged unio is found in abundance ; and the natives 

 make use of this species, for spoons, by rubbing off the a lata) 

 and rounding the margin — a process by which they arc ren- 

 dered of no value as specimens of the species. The copper- 

 head snake is said to exist in the waters of this river. Its 

 banks afford much of the open grounds which arc favorable to 

 the thirteen striped, or prairie squirrel, (S. trcdecem, of Mitch- 

 ill.) The Indians exhibited to me the skin of this little animal, 

 which is peculiarly marked with alternations of stripes and 

 spot 



H observed among the group of Indians at this place, the 

 widow and children of Waimit-Egozhains, a Chippewa, having 

 an admixture of white blood, who, with three others, was mur- 

 dered by the Sioux while descending the lower part of the St. 

 ( 'ix, in a canoe, in the fall of 1S30. We directed the inter- 



ter to say to her, that a< providence had removed her natural 



lector, and her means of subsistence must be small, the elder 



of ber boys, Vfho was present, would !><■ taken and sent to 



and also taught the arts of an industrious life, if she 



old direct him to embark in one of our canoes. She op- 

 ting to et mound on r: at the mouth of the river. 



