[4] He had returned with the Expedition, from Lake Superior.
[5] It is believed that the American Fur Company, did, however, submit such a proposition to the Directors of the Hudson’s Bay Company in London, which was not acceded to by the latter.
[6] Or Pami-tascodiac.
[7] From the data, above given, the descent of the Mississippi, will average a fraction over five inches, per mile, a result not essentially different from that furnished by the data, which I submitted in my Narrative Journal in 1820, but which was differently stated from haste and inadvertence. For a prompt notice of the error, I feel indebted to Hamilton Fulton, Esqr., who, soon after the appearance of the work, wrote to my publishers, on the subject.
[8] Onzig, of the Chippewas.
[9] So called in honor of Lieut. James Allen, U. S. A. who, on his return down the Mississippi, was the first to explore it.
[10] A few years ago, a Mr. Beltrami, returning from the settlement of Pembina, by the usual route of the traders from Red Lake to Turtle Lake, published at New Orleans, a small 12mo volume under the title of “La découverte des sources du Mississippi, et de la Rivière Sanglante,” a work which has since been expanded into two heavy 8vo volumes by the London press.
[11] Composed of the initials of the names of the gentlemen of the party.
[12] Among the dead, Wahb Ojeeg, Cadiwabida, or the Brèche, Chingaba Wossin, and Mozobodo, are the Chippewa patriarchs of modern days.
[13] It has been stated in the “Preliminary Observations,” that it became impracticable to visit these bands, during the expedition of 1831.