Lake Savanne lies northwest of Lake Nipigon, on a tributary of the Albany River. A brief account of a voyage thither is given by Duncan Cameron, in Masson, _Bourgeois_, ii, p. 271. Cameron also says that four out of eight traders starved there in one year (_ibid._, p. 242).—ED. Footnote 65: Long was the first to apply the word “totamism” to that system of beliefs and family relationships, now recognized as the basis of primitive society. The theory of clan relationships, as expressed by totems, was first developed by M’Lennan in a series of articles published in the _Fortnightly Review_, 1869–71. On the general theory, see Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_ (London, 1887), i, pp. 58–81. On the totemism of the American Indian there is a large literature. The following are useful: Schoolcraft, _Indian Tribes of the United States_ (Philadelphia, 1851–57); Brinton, _Myths of New World_ (Philadelphia, 3d ed., 1896).—ED. Footnote 66: This was the grant made to Sir William Johnson in 1760, of sixty-six thousand acres, now within Little Falls Township on the Mohawk River. The grant was confirmed by the crown in 1769, and Johnson Hall, a large portion of which is still standing, was built thereupon. See vol. i of this series, p. 88, note 48.—ED. Footnote 67: Henry says, “In North America there is no _partridge_; but the name is given to more than one species of grouse.” This was probably the _Canace_ or _Dendragapus Canadensis_, black or spotted grouse.—ED. Footnote 68: The loup-cervier is the Canadian lynx; the beaver eater, the wolverine (_gulo luscus_), or “carcajou.” For a description of the latter, see Martin, _Castorologia_, pp. 147–151.—ED. Footnote 69: The grizzly bear (_ursus ferox_), was first adequately identified and described by Lewis and Clark. See Thwaites’s ed. of _Original Journals of Lewis and Clark_ (New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904).—ED. Footnote 70: Dobbs, _Account of the Countries adjoining Hudson’s Bay_ (London, 1744), gives a map of these regions “as described by Joseph La France, a French Canadese Indian, who Traveled thro those Countries and Lakes for 3 years from 1739 to 1742,” on which he places “Ouassi Indians” between the Michipicoten and Nipigon rivers on the north shore of Lake Superior. He also says (p. 32), “There are two Indian Nations upon this North Coast, the Epinette ... and the Ouassi, both tribes of the Sauteurs.” The tribe designated by this term seems to have disappeared in the nineteenth century.—ED. Footnote 71: The Rat Indians are those of Rat Portage, on the Lake of the Woods, apparently a branch of the Chippewas. Their name is taken from the muskrat (_ondatra zibethicus_). See Coues, _Henry-Thompson Journals_ (New York, 1897), i, p. 26.—ED. Footnote 72: