\I'I'IMM\. 



iheFeaidu Lac band, confinnad what I bad pn beard, of 



rancil havjng been held oa lh< 3 ■ I i\. a Ufa the Pi 

 's band of S !!• laid that Kabamappa wu at the 



head of the Chippewa party, ami bad been the prime mover m 

 this pacific attempt. Thai he had hiaaeelf bean pr e sent, with a 

 deputation of eleven nun of the Fond du Lac hand, including 

 the elder chief Chingo< 



!>:. Boraa, a clerk in the A* F. Company's service, added, m 



ion to affaire on the Rainy Lake border, that five chieft have 

 been invested with BMdala and flags, by the British traders of 

 Rainy Lake. Thai eighty kegs of high-winea were exhibited to 

 the Indians at that post daring the last season — that it was freely 

 sent over the American lines, even within a fur hours' march of 

 Leech Lake — having been sent west of the portage into Turtle 

 Lake. 



We had now reached the head of Lake Superior. Our route 

 thence to the Mississippi was up the river St. Louis, and across 

 the Savanna portage. We reached the trading-house at the junc- 

 tion of Sandy Lake River with the M ssisaippi during the afternoon 

 of the 3d of July, and remained at that place until 6 o'clock in 

 the evening of the 4th. The Indians have confirmed the reports 

 of a war-party's baaing gone out from Leech Lake. All accounts 

 from that quarter indicated a state of extreme restlessness on the 

 part of that band, and also among the Yanktons and Sessitons. 

 Inineewi, or the .Manly Man, acted as the speaker at the council 

 which I held on the west banks of the river. He mingled, as is 

 common, his private affairs with his public business. He said 

 that he was not possessed of the authority of chieftainship, but 

 that his lather Kabi^wakoosidjiga, had been a chief under the 

 Ejlish government: that ChiiiL r oop, the chief of Fond du I. 



his uncle, and Chamees, our guide, his nephew. He said that 

 the I .utile, and most of the chiefs and hunters of the 



'■. bad dispersed from their encampment, and were now pass- 

 im: the summer months in the country near the mouth of L'aile 

 ile Corbeau, or Cow-wiag River, That he would forthwith con- 

 to them, &c. ; confirming his words with the 

 present of a pipe. 



il ••:., determined to ascend the Mississippi from this point, 



