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been taught to drink it. We have been told that the Great Spirit sent it to us be- 

 en use he loved us ; but we^iave learned that this is not true. 



"We have learned that the English people do not drink it — they are wise; and we 

 will all pledge our words to you in this council that we will not drink it while we are 

 in this country, and we are ready to put our names on a paper. (' How, how, how!')" 



"My friends," said I, " I don't require your names on a paper; I am satisfied ; if 

 you were white men, perhaps I might — but no Indian who ever gave me his word has 

 deceived me. I will take your names on paper, however, for another purpose, that I 

 may know how to call you, how to introduce you, and to have your arrival properly 

 announced in the newspapers. ('How, how, how ! ') " 



The names were then taken as follows, and the business of our first council being 

 finished, it broke up. 



1. Ah-quee-we-zaints (the Boy Chief). 



2. Pat-au-a-quot-a-wee-be (the Driving Cloud), war-chief. 



3. Wee-nish-ka-wee-be (the Flying Gull). 



4. Sah-mah (Tobacco). 



5. Gish-ee-gosh-e-gee (Moonlight Night). 



fi. Not-een-a-akm (Stong Wind), interpreter. 



7. Wos-see-ab-e-neuh-qua, woman. 



8. Nib-nab-ee-qua, girl. 



9. Ne-bet-neuh-qua, woman. 



After a stroll of an hour or so about my rooms, where they were inexpressibly 

 amused with my numerous paintings, &c, they were driven awhile about the town, 

 and landed at their hotel, where the crowd had become so general and so dense that 

 it was almost impossible to approach it. The partial glance that the public got of 

 their red faces and wild dresses on this day, as they were moving through the streets, 

 and passing to and from the carriage, increased the crj>- of " Ob-jubbeways !" in every 

 part of the city, and established the fact as certain that "real Indians" had made 

 their appearance in Manchester. 



It should b6 known to the reader by this time that this party were from the north- 

 ern shore of Lake Huron, in Canada, therefore Her Majesty's subjects, and part of 

 one of the most numerous tribes in North America, inhabiting the shores of Lake 

 Superior, Lake of the Woods, and Lake Huron, numbering some fifteen thousand or 

 twenty thousand, and usually (in civilized parlance) called Chippeways, a mere re- 

 finement upon their native name, O-jib-be-way. The appearance of these wild folks 

 so suddenly in the streets of Manchester was well calculated to raise an excitement 

 and the most intense curiosity. They were all clad in skins of their own dressing, 

 their head-dresses of eagles' quills and wild turkeys' feathers ; their faces daubed and 

 streaked with vermilion and black and green paint. They were armed with their 

 war-clubs, bows, and quivers, and tomahawks and scalping-knives, just as they roam 

 through the woods in their country ; and their yells and war-whoops, which were oc- 

 casionally sounded in the streets at some sudden occurrence that attracted their at- 

 tention, gave a new excitement amid the smoke and din of Manchester. The leading 

 man of this party, Ah-quee-we-zaivts (the Boy Chief), was an excellent old man, of 

 seventy-five years, with an intelligent and benignant countenance, and had been 

 somewhat distinguished as a warrior in his younger days. 



The next of cousequence, Pat-au-a-quot-a-wee-be (the Driving Cloud), and called the 

 war-chief (though I believe not a chief), was a remarkably fine man of thirty-five 

 years of age, and had distinguished himself as a warrior in several battles in the war 

 of 1812, having been engaged in the British lines, and in those engagements had been 

 several times severely wounded, and of which he still carried and exhibited the most 

 frightful scars. 



Sah-mah (Tobacco) and Gish-ee-gosh-egee (Moonlight Night) were two fine young 

 men, denoted warriors, having their wives with them ; Wee-nwh-lea- wee-be (the Flying 

 Gull) was a sort of doctor or necromancer to the party, and a young fellow of much 



