CHAPTER XL.

Betula Lake--Larch Lake--A war party surprised--Indian manners--Rice

Lake--Indian council--Red Cedar Lake--Speeches of Wabezhais and

Neenaba--Equal division of goods--Orifice for treading out rice--A live

beaver--Notices of natural history--Value of the Follavoine Valley--A

medal of the third President--War dance--Ornithology--A prairie country,

fertile and abounding in game--Saw mills--Chippewa River--Snake--La

Garde Mountain--Descent of the Mississippi--Sioux village--General

impression of the Mississippi--Arrival at Prairie du Chien.

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