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bird nrul his followers, who are sometimes referred to a> a dis- 

 tinct hand. AW asked the chief; while sitting at the camp-fire 

 in the evening, whether be did not feel tired, hai 

 that daring the day, he had alone, with the aid only of his wife, 

 poled op his canoe and managed to keep ahead, so as to guide, 

 inpe with seven mi n. lie was evidently fatigued, hut re- 

 plied. Broiling, no. 



We parted with this chief; who lias hecomc respectable- for 

 his influence in this part of the country, at four o'clock on the 

 netl morning, c2i\.) We had now got above all the strong rap- 

 nd attained very nearly the height of land. The river, 

 this point, receives the Clearwater and ljullalo Rivers, as 

 tributaries on the right bank. It is finally traced to Lake St. 

 Croix, a handsome sheet of clear water, about six miles long. 

 This lake has an island" which is the site of a small village. 

 Its bead is perhaps ten or eleven leagues distant from the Xa- 

 mai KowagOS. 



' l n tlio seen • :n which an Indian 



i kill his f.uhcr-in-hiw. 



