On Indian medicine-men and their skill as physicians, see Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, pp. 304–328; and _Jesuit Relations_, index, caption “Medicine-men.” See also Hoffman, “The Midewinin of the Ojibwa,” United States Bureau of Ethnology _Report_, 1885–86.—ED. Footnote 73: According to Count Andrani of Milan, who was at Grand Portage in 1791, each pack was valued at £40 sterling, making the total value of Long’s first season nearly $28,000. On the expenses of such an outfit, see _Canadian Archives_, 1888, p. 69.—ED. Footnote 74: This is not the river now known as Pic River, which is east of Pays Plat, but one of the shorter streams between this and Nipigon River, probably the one now called Gravel River.—ED. Footnote 75: For the difficulties of this passage from Pays Plat to Nipigon, see the account of the building of this section of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, in Ingersoll, _Canadian Guide-Book_ (New York, 1892), ii, pp. 29, 30.—ED. Footnote 76: For this lake, see Cameron, “Nipigon Country,” Masson, _Bourgeois_, ii, pp. 242, 244.—ED. Footnote 77: For a brief description of the process of making a birch bark canoe, see McKinney, _Tour of the Lakes_ (Baltimore, 1827), p. 319.—ED. Footnote 78: Scuttaywabo is rum or brandy. See Long’s Chippewa vocabulary, at the end of the present volume.—ED. Footnote 79: Tripe de roche is a lichen, which Henry calls _waac_ in Chippewa. See Henry, _Travels_ (Bain ed.), pp. 214, 215.—ED. Footnote 80: On the subject of justice in the forest, as exercised by the British companies, see Bancroft, _Northwest Coast_, i, pp. 538–542.—ED. Footnote 81: Fort Albany was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the seventeenth century. It was in a sheltered inlet, forty yards from the borders of James Bay on the south side of Albany River. In 1686 it was attacked and captured by Troyes’s expedition; and Iberville re-christened the post, Fort Ste. Anne. It remained in French hands until 1693, when retaken by the English, who never again lost it, although besieged by the French in 1704. The later fort was built on Factory Island, in the mouth of the river, about two and one-half miles from the old fort on the mainland.—ED. Footnote 82: