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- they do, Their hunters, however, always came out of the 

 mouth <)( Ssuc River, which had been given up to the Sioux. 



The young man - lid thai he was the son of Pugu Sain Jigun< 

 who h.ul died recently ai Bandy Lake. II - rid thai the medal 



which he wore had been given to his fatlu r by me, at the treaty 



o\ Prairie du Chien m 1895, in exchange fort British medal, 

 surrendered by him. He did not profess to have any expert 

 in political atlairs. H,. had inherited his medal, and hoped to be 

 Considered by me worthy of it. He expected the respect due to 

 it. He expressed his friendship, and confirmed his speech with 



a pipe. 



\ •■ rtaining the trading-house to be near my encampment, 

 after closing the council, I led the Mississippi about 



teen miles, and encamped at Prairie l'iereee. 

 The distance from the mouth of the De Corbeau to St. An- 

 thony's Falls, may be computed to exceed 200 miles. The line 

 between the Chippewat and Sioux crossed from the east to the 

 • of the Mississippi, so as to strike and follow up the 

 ^ -nib. or Little Soc River, which is the tir>t river on the west 

 hanks of the \1 ssiseippi, above the mouth of Soc River. 

 W i wed several Chippewa hunters, with their families, along 

 this part of the Mississippi, hut encountered no Sioux, even on 

 that portion of it lying south of their line. I was informed that 

 they had in a measure abandoned this part of the country, and I 

 observed no standing Sioux camp-poles, which are, with the 

 people, a cor: sign of occupancy, and which were, in 



1820, noticed to extend as high up the river as Little Rock. {Lcs 

 Pttit' Roches). 



I passed the portage of the Falls of St. Anthony, and reached 

 Fort Snelung on the 21th July. There being no agent, nor sub- 

 ] ommanding officer, on whom 



icy had trmj orarily devolved, afforded me 

 every facility for communicating to the Sioux the object of my 

 and requesting their concurrence in its ac- 

 complishment. For this purpose the Wahpeton Sioux were 

 ca p lt -i , on the 25th. I stated to 



them the object of the visit, and the means which had been used 



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