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by tyeenaba himaelf, and ihe names translated and written down 

 by .Mr. Johnston* 

 It is obvious thai the adjustment of this line most paecede a 



permanent peaee on this part of the frontiers. The number of 

 I irticularly interested in it is, from my notes, 2,103; 



to which, 91 1 may be added for certain hands on Lake Superior, 

 [tarn races 27 villages, and the most influential civil and war 

 chiefs of the region. The population is enterprising and warlike. 

 They have the means of subsistence in comparative abundance. 

 They are increasing in numbers. They command a ready ac- 

 cess to the Mississippi by water, and B ready return from it by 

 land. Habits of association have taught them to look upon this 

 :n as the theatre ol war. Their young men arc carried into 

 it as the natural and almost only m< ana of distinction. And it is 

 in coincidence with all observation, to say that they arc now, as 

 they were in the daya of Captain Carver, the terror of the cast 

 bank of this river, between the St Croix and Chippewa Rivera* 

 her tribe lias now, or has had, within the memory of man, a 

 village or permanent possession on this part of the shore. It is 

 landed on in fear. It is often passed by other nations by 

 stealth, and at night. Such is not an ited picture. And 



with a knowledge of their geographical advantages, and numbers, 

 and distribution, on the tributary streams, alight causes, it maybe 

 imagined, will often excite the young and thoughtless portion of 

 them to raise the war-club, to chant the war-song, and follow the 

 path. 



To remove these causes, to teach them the folly of such a 

 contest, to remind them of the treaty stipulations and promises 

 solemnly made to the government and to the Sioux, and to in- 

 duce them to renew those promises, and to act on fixed princi- 



I of political faith, were the primary objects committed to me ; 

 and they were certainly objects of exalted attainment, according 



I ell with the character of the government as with the spirit 

 and moral and intellectual tone of the age. To these objects I 



have faithfully, the means at my command. 



And the Chippewas cannot, hereaiu r, en on the subject of their 



1 I knowing that the error is di s - 



