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Monedo, or the Red Devil, and his people had returned, saying 

 that they would punish the fugitive. 



With respect to the murder committed by his son, he said that 

 he had come out to give himself up for it, to be dealt with as 

 might be dictated. He stood ready to answer for it. And he 

 awaited my decision respecting it, as well as the other murder. 

 He concluded his address by presenting a pipe. 



Soon after passing Presque Isle river (20th), we met Mr. 

 Warren, a trader, and his brigade of boats, on his annual return 

 from his wintering ground. He confirmed the reports heard from 

 the Indians, and added, that a trader from the Mississippi had 

 entered the St. Croix River, and introduced ardent spirits among 

 the Chippewas of Snake River. Mushcoswun followed me, with 

 others, to Chagoimegon, or Lapointe, became a sharer in the 

 presents distributed there, and expressed himself during the coun- 

 cil in a speech of decidedly friendly terms. 



At the mouth of the River Broula I encountered Ozawondib, or 

 the Yellow Head, and Mainotagooz, or the Handsome Enunciator, 

 two Chippewas from the Cassinian source of the Mississippi, 

 being on their way to visit me at the seat of the agency. They re- 

 ported that the Indians of Leech Lake had raised a war-party, 

 and gone out against the Sioux of the Plains. Both these In- 

 dians returned with me to Cass Lake. The former afterward 

 guided me from that remote point to the source of this river. 



On reaching Fond du Lac (23d), I found the Indians of that 

 post assembled, preparatory to the departure of the traders of 

 the Fond du Lac department. Mr. Aitkin represented that the 

 Hudson's Bay clerks had been well supplied with high-wines, 

 during the season of trade, which were freely used to induce our 

 Indians to cross the boundary in quest of it, and that if the Amer- 

 ican government did not permit a limited quantity of this article 

 to be taken by their traders, that part of their hunts would be 

 carried to their opponents. His clerks from Rainy Lake 

 presented me a pipe and ornamented stem, accompanying a 

 speech of general friendship from Aissibun, or the Racoon, and 

 another, with similar testimonials, from the son of the late chief 

 Ainakumigishkung, both of the Rainy Lake band. 



Mongazid-, or the Loon's Foot, the second chief and speaker of 



