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RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 



us a clue to the prosperity, cleanliness, and appear- 

 ance of industry which distinguished the mission. A 

 young tame partridge was hopping about the floor when 

 we entered. A number of books occupied a small table 

 in one corner, the other was taken up by a turning lathe, 

 and various articles manufactured by the cure were lying 

 about the room. A low bed covered with a buffalo robe 

 filled another corner, and while we were conversing an 

 old chief, dressed in scarlet cloth, quietly entered and 

 placed himself on a chair by the side of a small carpenter's 

 bench, which filled the remaining angle. 



Among many interesting facts with which we were 

 furnished by the kindness of M. Chone, we learned various 

 particulars respecting the condition of the Indians and 

 their relation to the Government of Canada, which an 

 inspection of the treaty confirmed. In 1850 a treaty was 

 concluded by the Hon. W. B. Eobinson on behalf of Her 

 Majesty and the Government of the Province with the 

 Chiefs of the Ojibway Indians, inhabiting the northern 

 shore of Lake Superior from Batchewanaung Bay to 

 Pigeon Eiver, and inland to the height of land between 

 Canada and the territories in the occupation of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company. For the sum of £2000 currency, and 

 an annual payment of £200, to be paid at Port William 

 and Michipicoten, the chiefs surrendered all their right 

 and title to the above territory, with the exception of the 

 following reserves made over to them for the purposes 

 of residence and cultivation, allowance being given under 

 certain reasonable restrictions that they shall still hunt 

 over the territory and fish in the waters as heretofore. 

 The number of Indians included in this treaty was 1240. 

 The reservations made for their benefit were as follow : — 



First. For Joseph Peau de Chat and his tribe ; the re- 

 serve to commence about two miles from Fort William on 



