I augured well from all I heard respecting it, as coming from the Indians, and was resolved to follow it up zealously, by cultivating the best understanding with this powerful and hitherto hostile tribe, namely the Chippewas, or, as they call themselves, Od-jib-wä.

One of the curious superstitions of the Chippewas, respecting the location of spiritual existences, revealed itself to-day.

It is customary with the Chippewas at this place, when an inmate of the lodge is sick, to procure a thin sapling some twenty to thirty feet long, from which, after it has been trimmed, the bark is peeled.

The Chippewas and their friends, the old traders and Boisbrules, and Canadians, are never tired of telling of it.

I directed the body to be interred, at the public charge, on the ancient burial hill of the Chippewas, near the cantonment.

Nothing has surprised me more in the conversations which I have had with persons acquainted with the Indian customs and character, than to find that the Chippewas amuse themselves with oral tales of a mythological or allegorical character.

Immediately opposite stands the scarcely less elevated, and not less celebrated promontory of Point Iroquois, the Na-do-wa-we-gon-ing, or Place of Iroquois Bones, of the Chippewas.

The morning chosen to visit this scene was fine; the means of conveyance chosen was the novel and fairy-like barque of the Chippewas, which they denominate Che-maun, but which we, from a corruption of a Charib term as old as the days of Columbus, call Canoe.

Beyond it is what the Chippewas call Bub-eesh-ko-be, meaning the far off, indistinct prospect of a water scene, till the reality, in the feeble power of human vision, loses itself in the clouds and sky.

Hence this has ever remained the French name for Chippewas.

The Chippewas count decimally, and after ten, add the names of the digits to the word ten, up to twenty; then take the word for twenty, and add them as before, to thirty; and so on to a hundred.

Oral Literature of the Indians."I am extremely anxious," writes a friend, "that Mr. Johnston and his family should furnish full and detailed answers to my queries, more particularly upon all subjects connected with the language, and, if I may so speak, the polite literature of the Chippewas (I write the word in this way because I am apprehensive that the orthography is inveterately fixed, and not because I suppose it is correct).

Who can say, after this, that the Chippewas have not some imagination? Indian Tale.

Allegorical and Mythological Tales."I shall be rejoiced," observed Governor C., in a letter of this day, in reply to my announcement of having detected fanciful traditionary stories among the Chippewas, "to receive any mythological stories to which you allude, even if they are enough to rival old Tooke in his Pantheon."

The Chippewas in this quarter usually transpose the b and p in English words.

The Chippewas form theirs with acute points fore and aft, resembling two inverted sections of a circle.

" The Chippewas have quite a poetic allegory of winter and spring, personified by an old and a young man, who came from opposite points of the world, to pass a night together and boast of their respective powers.

The Chippewas are apt to connect all their ghost stories with fire.

The Chippewas call it Pashcundamo, in allusion to the stoutness of its bill, and consequent capacity for breaking surfaces.

"If they (the Chippewas) say 'A man loves me,' or 'I love a man,' is there any variation in the word man?"

Mr. John Holiday, a trader, arrived from the Ance Kewy-winenon in Lake Superior, bringing a small coffin painted black, inclosing an American scalp, with the astounding intelligence that a shocking murder had been committed by a war party of Chippewas at Lake Pepin, on the Mississippi.

It is the usual point of issue for Chippewa war parties against the Sioux, for which it has been celebrated since the first migration of the Chippewas into the rice lake region at its sources.

Trip to Prairie du Chien on the MississippiLarge assemblage of tribesTheir appearance and characterSioux, Winnebagoes, Chippewas, &c.Striking and extraordinary appearance of the Sacs and Foxes, and of the IowasKeokukMongazid's speechTreaty of limitsWhisky questionA literary impostorJourney through the valleys of the Fox and Wisconsin riversIncidentsMenomoniesA big noseWisconsin Portage.

The Chippewas presented the more usually known traits, manners and customs of the great Algonquin familyof whom they are, indeed, the best representative.

The cognate tribe of the Menomonies, and of the Potawattomies and Ottowas from Lake Michigan, assimilated and mingled with the Chippewas.