Quelques jours apres je m’en fus a travers les terres a la Baye avec deux Francois. J’en rencontroit a tout moment qui m’enseignoient le meilleur chemin et me regaloient fort bien(10).... [2] _Au lecteur._ Dans ces extraits, le text que donne le Pere T. a ete implicitement suivi; mais quant aux accents grammatiques, on doit pardonner leur absence, puis ce qu’il n’y a pas encore de type Francais dans les imprimeries de St. Paul. H. TRANSLATION. For the country of the north is the most ungrateful country in the world, since, in many places, you would not find a bird to hunt; still, blueberries are gathered there in the months of August and September.... The Chiripinons, or Assiniboines, sow wild rice in their marshes, which they afterwards gather, but they can only transport it home during the period of navigation(1).... The Kiristinons, who often frequent the shores of Lake Superior and of the great rivers, where the elk are most commonly to be found(2).... The savages, called Sauteurs, [Chippewas] are on the south of Lake Superior.... They have for neighbors and friends the Sioux, upon whose limits they hunt, when they wish.... Advancing to the north, towards the entry of the Wisconsin, the winter is extremely cold and long. It is there that the beavers are the best, and the country where hunting lasts the longest during the year.... They take, also, in winter, from under the ice, in marshes where there is much mud and little water, a certain root; ... but it is only found in _Louisianne_, fifteen leagues [4½ miles] above the entry of the Wisconsin. The savages name this root, in their language, Pokekoretch.... But the tribes the furthest advanced in the north, as far as the latitude of the Wisconsin, do not have these medlars, and those who are yet further, want also the nuts similar to the ones of France.... For this country [of the savages of the prairies] is entirely plains; there are only some islands [oases] where it is their custom to camp to dry their meat....