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elder brother ; Anncethai-yazzeh, another 

 of his brothers ; and one of our guides, 

 arrived with the remainder of Akaitcho's 

 band ; as also Long-legs, brother to the 

 Hook, with three of his band. There were 

 now in the encampment, thirty hunters, 

 thirty-one women, and sixty children, in all 

 one hundred and twenty-one of the Copper 

 Indian or Red-Knife tribe. The rest of 

 the nation were with the Hook on the lower 

 part of the Copper-Mine River. 



Annoethai-yazzeh is remarkable amongst 

 the Indians for the number of his descend- 

 ants ; he has eighteen children living by 

 two wives, of whom sixteen were at the fort 

 at this time. 



In the evening we had another formidable 

 conference. The former complaints were 

 reiterated, and we parted about midnight, 

 without any satisfactory answer to my 

 questions, as to when Akaitcho would pro- 

 ceed towards the river, and where he meant 

 to. make provision for our march. I was 

 somewhat pleased, however to find that 



