It may be objected that all that is strictly personal, might have been more modestly put forth under the name of a third person; or that the events themselves and the scenes might have been described, while those participating in them might have been kept more in the background. In the first case, the narrative would have lost its air of truth and reality--in the second, the experiment would merely have been tried of dressing up a theatre for representation, and omitting the actors. Some who read the following sketches may be inclined to believe that a residence among our native brethren and an attachment growing out of our peculiar relation to them, have exaggerated our sympathies, and our sense of the wrongs they have received at the hands of the whites. This is not the place to discuss that point. There is a tribunal at which man shall be judged for that which he has meted out to his fellow-man. May our countrymen take heed that their legislation shall never unfit them to appear "with joy, and not with grief," before that tribunal! CHICAGO, July, 1855. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Departure from Detroit CHAPTER II. Michilimackinac--American Fur Company--Indian Trade--Mission School--Point St. Ignace CHAPTER III. Arrival at Green Bay--Mrs. Arnot--General Root--Political Dispatches--A Summerset--Shanty-Town--M. Rolette--Indian Morning Song--Mr. Cadle's Mission--Party at Miss Doty's--Misses Grignon--Mrs. Baird's Party--Mrs. Beall CHAPTER IV. Arrangements for Travelling--Fox River--Judge Doty--Judge Réaume--M. Boilvin--Canadian Voyageurs: their Songs--The Kakalin--Wish-tay-yun--Rev. Eleazar Williams--Passage through the Rapids--Grande Chûte--Krissman CHAPTER V. Beautiful Encampment--Winnebago Lake--Miss Four-Legs--Garlic Island--Wild Rice CHAPTER VI. Breakfast at Betty More's--Judge Law--Fastidiousness; what came of it CHAPTER VII. Butte des Morts--French Cognomens--Serpentine Course of Fox River--Lake Puckaway--Lac de Boeuf--Fort Winnebago. CHAPTER VIII. Major and Mrs. Twiggs--A Davis--An Indian Funeral--Conjugal Affliction--Indian Chiefs; Talk-English--The Wild-Cat--The Dandy CHAPTER IX. Housekeeping--The First Dinner CHAPTER X. Indian Payment--Pawnee Blanc--The Washington Woman--Raising Funds CHAPTER XI. Louisa--Garrison Life--Dr. Newhall--Affliction--Domestic Accommodations--Ephraim--New-Year's Day--Native Custom--Day-kau-ray's Views of Education--Captain Harney's Mince-Pie CHAPTER XII. Lizzie Twiggs--Preparation for a Journey--The Regimental Tailor CHAPTER XIII. eparture from Fort Winnebago--Duck Creek--Upset in a Canoe--Pillon--Encamping in Winter--Four Lakes--Indian Encampment--Blue Mound--Morrison's--A Tennessee Woman CHAPTER XIV. Rev. Mr. Kent--Losing One's Way--A Tent Blown Down--Discovery of a Fence--Hamilton's Diggings--Frontier Housekeeping--Wm. S. Hamilton--A Miner--Hard Riding--Kellogg's Grove CHAPTER XV.