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canoe, with the goods and supplies from Sandy Lake, was in sight.- 

 And in a few moments found the event verified, in the safe arri- 

 val of the men, and the landing of the packages. 



I determined to lose no time in assembling the Indians in 

 council, addressed them on the objects of the expedition, and 

 caused the presents to be prepared and distributed. I was ad- 

 dressed, in reply, by the elder chief, Gross Guelle, and also by 

 the brother of the Strong Ground, by Waub Ojeeg, and by a 

 young man called Nitum E'gabo Wai. Peculiarities in the ad- 

 dress of each only require to be adverted to. 



The Gross Guelle deemed it important that the line between 

 them and the Sioux should be surveyed and marked. He said 

 that much of it was a land line, and it could not be told by either 

 party where it ran. This was true of it, in the section of coun- 

 try immediately west of them. The Sioux were in the habit of 

 trespassing on it ; and when their own hunters went out in. the 

 pursuit of game, they did not like to stop short of the game, and 

 they saw no marked line to stop them. He said that it had been 

 promised at the treaty that the line should be run, and he wished 

 me to refer the subject to the President. He was in favour of 

 peace now, as he had been at Tipisagi, and at Fond du Lac. 



Soangikumig, or the Strong Ground, expressed his sentiments 

 through the medium of his brother, who was the more ready 

 speaker. He said he had taken a part in defending the lines, and 

 he hoped that they might be made plain, so that each party could 

 see them. As it is, a perpetual pretence is given for crossing 

 the lines. It must be expected that peace would often be broken 

 when it could be so easily done. 



Waub Ojeeg, or the White Fisher, said that he had given his 

 influence to peace counsels. He had been present at the treaty 

 of Fond du Lac. But the Sandy Lake Indians had been lately 

 reproached, as it w T ere, for their pacific character, by hearing of 

 the Leech Lake war-party's passing so near to them. He hoped 

 that the same advice that was given to them would be given to 

 the Sioux. If the Sioux would not come over the lines, the Chippe- 

 was would promise not to go over them. He thought the lines 

 might have been differently run, but as they had been agreed to by 

 their old chiefs, who were now gone, it would be best to let them 



