See Hennepin's account of "Aqui-pa-que-tin," and his village. Shea's Hennepin, 225.
Now called "Mud River"—it empties into the Mississippi at Aitkin.
Gitchee See-bee—Big River—is the Ojibway name for the Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee—as Michigan is a corruption of Gitchee Gumee—Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake Superior.
The Ojibways called the St. Louis River Gitchee-Gumee See-bee—Great-lake River, i.e. the river of the Great Lake (Lake Superior).