He has spent life, it seems, knocking about trading posts, in the Indian country, being married, has metif children, and speaks the Chippewa tongue fluentlyI do not know how accurately.

American lads, whose names were inscribed in the licenses at Michilimackinack, as principals, went inland in reality to learn the business and the language; the engagees, or boatmen, who were chiefly Canadians or metifs, were bonded for, in five hundred dollars each.

These, with the resident metif population of above 300 souls, and the adjacent Indian tribes, constitute the worldthe little isolated worldin which we must move for six months to come.

New Year's day here, as among the metif, and also the pure descendants of the ancient French of Normandy in Michigan, is a day of friendly visiting from house to house, and cordial congratulations, with refreshments spread on the board for all.

Grant was the trader of the Pembina metifs, and had followed them out.

In the morning he made a descent through the camp, speaking openly against the meditated attack on the Sioux, and concluded by saying that for himself and the metifs, he had one thing to say, that they wished to preserve peace with all, and they should join and fight for the nation first attacked, and against whoever might raise a war-club.

I amused myself a few days, by keeping minutes of the visits of the mixed Indian and metif multitude. 12th.

I informed him that the construction put on the Indian laws prohibited any white man from following the pursuits of a hunter on Indian land; that it also forbids the residence of boatmen at Indian camps or villages, after they have served out their engagements, &c. Joseph Montrè is a metif, step-son of Maucè.

The scandal appears to be one originating with certain Metif boys of the Mission school.

Attended the funeral of William Dolly, a Metif boy, of Indian extraction. 4th.

I was present this morning at the Mission, at the examination of the Metif boy Thomas Shepard, and was surprised at the recklessness and turpidity of his moral course, as disclosed by himself, and, at the announcement of the names of his abettors.

Having, on the 19th of April, called the attention of Mrs. La Fromboise, an aged Metif lady, to the former state of things here, she says that the post of Chicago was first established under English rule, by a negro man named Pointe aux Sables, who was a respectable man.

The class of metifs and half-breeds were glad, because they had been remembered by the chiefs, who set apart a fund for their benefit.