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anchor, and at sunset anchored for tlie night, near a 
small sand-bar in the middle of the river. 
While I was at the Indian camp yesterday thejr 
yoked a dog to a kind of car, which they have tO' 
haul their baggage from one camp to another ; the 
nation having no settled place or village, but are al- 
ways moving about.t The dogs are not large, much 
resemble a wolf, and will haui about 70 pounds each. 
f It appears that these people, (ifi some respects resem- 
bling the wandering Arabs) are an unsettled, ferocious, 
blood-thirsty race, and hate been great destroyers of the 
Algonquin nation, who inhabit the country about lake Su- 
perior. Mr. M'Kenzie states the following circumstance, 
«< Within three miles of the last portage" (a place near lake 
Supei'ior) " is a remarkable rock, with a smooth face, but 
split and cracked in different parts, which hang oVer the 
water. Into one of its horizontal chasms a great number 
of arrows have been shot^ which is said to have been done 
by a war party of the Nadowasis or Sieux, who had done 
Hiuch mischief in this country, and left these weapons as a 
warning to tlie Cbebpis or natives, that, notwithstanding its 
lakes, rivers and ropks, it was not inaccessible to their ene* 
mies." 
General Blstorp of the Fitr Trade. 
