This is the game of lacrosse, a modification of which has become the Canadian national game. For an historical account of this game, see _Jesuit Relations_, x, pp. 326–328; Henry’s _Travels_ (Bain’s ed.), p. 77; Masson, _Bourgeois_, ii, pp. 337, 338.—ED. Footnote 56: For a similar game with slight modifications, see Masson, _Bourgeois_, ii, p. 340.—ED. Footnote 57: Mr. Shaw was an independent trader, father of Angus Shaw, partner and agent of the North West Company.—ED. Footnote 58: This is a citation from the _New Discovery_ of Hennepin, who gives the first account of the tribe, apparently a branch of the Sioux, whose custom of weeping he so fully describes in connection with his captivity among the Issati Indians.—ED. Footnote 59: The early cradles of the Chippewa Indians are described in more detail by Grant, “The Sauteux Indians,” in Masson, _Bourgeois_, ii, pp. 322, 323.—ED. Footnote 60: This is true not only of the St. Croix River (Wisconsin) Chippewas, but of nearly all the tribe up to the present time. The “woods Indian” north of Lake Superior is usually a Chippewa (Ojibwa), and a large portion of those under the care of the Canadian government are still hunters. The Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, in its _Report_ for 1900, represents the modern Ojibwa as little changed, except from general inability to obtain liquor as freely as in the olden days of the fur-trade.—ED. Footnote 61: For the hereditary enmity between the Chippewas and the Sioux, and the particularly fierce encounters of this period, see Warren, “History of the Ojibways,” in _Minnesota Historical Collections_, v, pp. 72, 95, 222–241.—ED. Footnote 62: Indian slavery among the French was first practiced in the Illinois country, and (1709) was authorized by edict for Canada. Slavery was abolished for Upper Canada in 1793; and by 1800 had ceased in Lower Canada. See Lafontaine, “L’ésclavage en Canada,” Montreal Historical Society _Proceedings_, 1858; Canadian Institute _Transactions_, 1889–90 (Toronto, 1891); and _Proceedings_, 1897, p. 19.—ED. Footnote 63: In the language of James Bain, Jr., librarian of the Toronto Public Library, “Long is the most indefinite of travellers, and English names of lakes and rivers unstable.” It seems an almost hopeless task to localize several of his geographical names by the aid of modern maps. As a matter of fact this part of Northwestern Ontario from Lake Nipigon to Lake Abittibi is still almost _terra incognita_. For the best current maps and descriptions, see Canadian Department of the Interior _Report_, 1890, part v; also Ontario Bureau of Mines _Report_, 1900.—ED. Footnote 64: