1&3 ITERATIVE, Ac. 



first labor was the ascent of a rapid, our second, our third, and 

 our fourth labors, were also rapids. In short, rapid succeeded 

 to rapid, and with such short intervals, that it would be imprac- 

 ticable from any notes preserved of the route, to speak of this 

 part of the stream, in any other light than as a continued series 

 of rapids. We often thought ourselves above them but we as 

 often found, in the language of our canoemen, " encore tin. 19 

 About two o'clock in the afternoon w T e came to still waters with 

 sedgy shores, and at seven in the evening reached and landed 

 at Kabamappa's village. The distance may be twenty-five 

 miles above the Women's Portage. We encamped here. 



The village is situated on a part of the river called Namai 

 Kowagon, or Sturgeon Dam. • It occupies an eligible prairie 

 bank, and exhibits in the style of the lodges and gardens, con- 

 siderable industry and regard to comfort. It would seem to be 

 no difficult effort to induce Indians, who had proceeded thus far 

 in fixed industry, to labor on their lands more extensively and 

 effectually. The lodges represent, on the ground plan, oblongs 

 enclosed with strong elm bark, sustained on a frame work of 

 saplings, tied on posts firmly set in the ground. They have a 

 moveable piece or door, at each end, and an opening in the 

 centre of the lodge, in the place of a chimney. Corn and po- 

 tatoe fields, covered the surrounding grounds. The corn was 

 in tassel, but the wilting of its blades, indicated, that they had 

 been touched by a slight frost. Its effects were particularly 

 apparent in some vines near one of the lodges. Although the 

 lodges had been carefully closed, the chief said during his ab- 

 sence, a wolf had broken into his lodge and committed depre- 

 dations. He observed, in speaking of game, that the red deer 

 was found on the adjoining plains. In order to hunt the moose 

 an animal formerly abundant in the region, he observed that it 

 was necessary to go to one of the remote forks of the Burnt- 

 wood or Brule River. He represented the population of his 

 village at eighty-eight souls, of whom twenty-eight were men, 

 This estimate was understood to include the minor chief Black 



