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Show JOUHNAL OF A VOYAGE to Mr. Dickson on the subject of the Fols Avoin ;)I< als0 some orders to my sergeant. 1 his evening had a long conversation with l)e Brechc, he informed me that a string of Vv ampum, had been sent among the Chipeways, he thought by the British commanding officer at St. Joseph ; he appeared to be a very. intrllig nt man. 27//J February, T!Jursday.-The chief called the White l~'isher and seven Indians arriv d at the house. My 1ncn also arrived about 12 o'clock. 28Lb February, Friday.-We left Red Cedar Lake, about 11 o'clock, and went to where the canoes were, mentioned in my journal of the 1st January. My young Indians remained behind, under the prete1~ce of waiting for the chief De Brccbe, who returned to Sandy Lake for his f1ag and 1nedals, and was to render hi1nself at my post with Mr. Grant, about the 15th of the following month. 1st Jvlrzrcb, Saturday.-Departed early. Passed our encampment of the 31st December, at 9 o'clock A.M. Pass d Pine river at 12 o'clock. Passed our encampment of the 30th Decemb 'rat 3 o'clock. Passed our encamp· ment of the 20th November, just before we came to our present, which we m ~tJ e on the point of the Pine Ridge, below. l)istance '1<3 miles. 2-d M(/rch, Sunday.-Passed our encampment of the 2Rth December, at 10 o'clock A. M. that of the 27th December at 1 o'clock P.M. and encamped at that of the 26th l )ecembcr. lt'ound wood nearly sufficient for our use. Thi~ morning disp.atched Bradley, to the last place we had buncu a barrel of flour, to thaw the ground and hunt. 'This day a · party of Indians, struck the river behind Bradl(7 and oefore us, but left it 1 o miles above the Raven river. '* See :1ppn1dix to part f, [No. ?·1 page ~ ~ · TO TllE SOURCES Of THE MTS~I S SIPPI. . 3d March, Monclay.-Marched early; passed our Chnst~as enca~pment, at sunrise. I was ahead of my party, m my canol e. Soon afterwards I observed a smoke on the W. shore. I hallood, and some ]ndians appeared upon the bank. I waited until my interpreter came up, we .then went to the camp. They proved to b a party of Chipewa.ys, who had left the encampment, the same day we left It. They presented 1ne with some roast n1eat, which I gave my sleigh dogs. They then left their canr) d . . 1 an accompamed us down the ri ver. \7\f c pas, cd our en-campment of the 24·th l)ccembcr, at !) o'clock, of the 23d at 1 0 o'clock, and of the 22d at eleven o'clock · here the Indians crossed on to the VIT. shore ; arrived ~t the encampment of the 2 !st l)ecembcr, at 12 o'clock. \iVhcre we had a barrel of flour. I here found corporall\1eck and another man, from th post, from wh01n I hea rd, that the men were all well ; they confirmed the account of a Sioux having fired on a sentinel ; and added, that th sentin~l l1ad first made him drunk, and then turned him out of the tent, ~1pon which he fired on the sentinel and ran ofl~ but pr01~1sed to deliver himself up in the pring. The corporal1nformcd n1c, that the sergeant had us ,d all the elegant hams and saddle~) of v 'nison, which I had pre~ served to present to the commander in chief and other fric1~ds; that h~ had made away with all the whiskL'y, in~ 1udmg a keg I had for my own usc, having publicly sold It to the men, and a barrel of pork, that Iw had broken open my tnmk and sold some thing~ out of it, tradl'd with the Indians, g~ve them liquor, &c. and this too cont_rary to my most pomted and particul,u· dir 'ctions. Thus, after I h.a d useel , 1·1 1 gom· g up the n·v er wi·t h my party, tht• st.n ctrst economy, I'I v·m g upon two pounds of fro/,cn ve-nison a day; in order that we Hlight have provi'iion to car# ry u~ down in the spring ; this fellow \V(JS sc1uandl'ring away the flour, pork , ano liqunr, during th<' wint<'r and |
