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Show .. 46 JOURNAL. hands, and the scalps of the ~Iahas they had kilk{:, tied on 'them. They kept moving, or jumping round the fire, rising and falling on both feet at once; kee ping a continue~! noise, singi11g and yelling. In tlii~ 1nanner they continued till 1 o'clock at night, when we returned to the boat with t\VO of the chiefs. On coming. aboard, the pet·iogue run ac1·oss the how of the boat and bl'oke the cable. All hands were roused to row t!1e boat as bore; the chiefs called aloud, and el number of the warrior~ came to out' assistance, but we did not need it: the cil'cumstance, howeYer, shewccl their disposition to be of service. Thit> unfortunate accident lost to t s our anchor. .Friday, 28th. This morning we dragged the river all round where the boat lay, but could not find the anchor. At 9 o'clock we made pi'cparations to sail; some of the chiefs were on board, and concluded to go some distance with us. 'Vhen we went to shove f>ff, some of the Indjans took hold of the rope and would not let it •go. This conduct had like to be attended with bad consequences, as Captain Lewis was ncar giving orders to cut the rope and to fi1·e on them. The chiefs, ho·weve1·, went out and talked with them : they said thty wanted a carrot of tobacco, and that if we gave that we mi;,sht g-o. The tobacco wns given them, and we went off under a gentle lH·eeze of wind. \V e passrcl high land on the north side and bottom on the sonth. \V e proceeded 4 miles, and then si'\w ~m Indian following us along the beach, when Captain Lewis went in a periogue and brought him on board. He infonned us that 3.oo more Indians had come to tlleir camp, and destrecl we should stop and talk with them. We did not then stop, but p1·oceeckd on, and he r em ained on board. \ Ve passed a f-ine bottom covered with timbc l' on the north side, and bare hills on the south. 'V e made two lar~e stones serre the purpose of an JOURNAL. 47 anchcr, and at sunset anci1ored for the night, near a 5ma1l sand-bar in the tniddle of the river. '\Vhile I was at t he Indian camp yesterday they yoked a dog to a kind of car, which they have to haul their baggage from one camp to another ;1 the nation having no settled place or village, but are al~ ways moving abuut.t The dogs are not large, much resemble a v.-olf, and will haul about 70 pounds each. t It appe:trs that these people, (in some refipects resem .. hling th~ war.dering Arabs) are an unsettled, ferocious, hlood-tlm·sty 1·ace, and have been great destroyers of the Alg-onquin nation, who inhabit the conntry about lake SuperioJ ·. Mr. M'Kcnzie states the following circumstance, "' 'Vi tb in t hJ ee miles of the last portage" (a plare near Jake ~upc1·ior) '' is a remarkable rock, '' ith a smooth face, but split unrl ct·acked in difle rr nt parts, which hang over the \rnter. Into one of its horizontal chjsms a great number of arro>-.·s have been shot, "hich is snid to ha,·e been done by a war p~u·ty of the Nadowa.sis or Sieux, who had done much mischief in this country, ~n<.l left these weapons as a warning to the Che bois or nl'ltives, th!lt, notwithstanding its l~kes, r iVei'i and rocks, it was not in!lccessiLle to their enemies." |