[166] Mr. Nicollet, who ascended the same fork in 1836, makes the distance twelve miles more. Vide Ex., Doc. No. 237.
[167] Entire trees are often found imbedded in its rocks of the middle era, as is evidenced by an individual of the juglans nigra, of at least fifty feet long, in the River De Plaine, valley of the Illinois. Vide Appendix.
[168] Appendix.
[169] Kakábik. Abik is a rock. The prefixed syllable, Kak, may be derived from Kukidjewum, a rapid stream. Ka is often a prefix of negation in compound words, which has the force of a derogative.
[170] From the term Iah-pinuniddewin, an emphatic expression for a place of carnage, so called from a secret attack made at this place, in time past, by a party of Sioux, who killed every member of a lodge of Chippewas, and then shockingly mangled their bodies.
[171] From Monominakauning, place of wild rice.
[172] From ocaut, a leg, and kinabic, a snake.
[173] Lieut.-Col. James Allen, U. S. A. This officer graduated at West Point in 1825. After passing through various grades, he was promoted to a captaincy of infantry in 1837. He was lieutenant-colonel and commandant of the battalion of Mormon volunteers in the Mexican war, which was raised by his exertions, and died at Fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, on the 23d of August, 1846.
[174] Doc. No. 237.
[175] From the word puka, abrupt phenomenon, and the verb saugi, outflowing.