. The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike;. hat a string of wampum had beensent among the Chippewas by, he thought, the Britishcommanding officer at St. Joseph. This he seemed tothink important, but its signification he does not indi-cate. De Breche agreed to go to Sandy Lake andmeet Pike again at his own post the middle of Marchbringing with him his British flag and medals, andBuck and Beau remained behind to accompany him,as they said. Meanwhile, visited by chief White Fisher,and other Indians, Pike remained at Lower Red CedarLake until the first of March, when all his party hadarrived, and they
. The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike;. hat a string of wampum had beensent among the Chippewas by, he thought, the Britishcommanding officer at St. Joseph. This he seemed tothink important, but its signification he does not indi-cate. De Breche agreed to go to Sandy Lake andmeet Pike again at his own post the middle of Marchbringing with him his British flag and medals, andBuck and Beau remained behind to accompany him,as they said. Meanwhile, visited by chief White Fisher,and other Indians, Pike remained at Lower Red CedarLake until the first of March, when all his party hadarrived, and they started back for the post, where onascending they had left Kennerman, as Sergeant incommand. As nearly as possible Pike struck his oldcamps and notes sending Bradley ahead to thaw outthe ground and get the barrel of flour he had cachedcoming up. ^March 7,rd. Marched early; passed our Christ-mas encampment at sunrise. I was ahead of my partyin my carriole. Soon afterward I observed a smokeon the W. shore. I halloed and some Indians ap-. Leech Lake to St. Louis 91 peared on the bank, I waited until the interpreter cameup; we then went into camp. They proved to be aparty of Chipeways, who had left the encampment thesame day we had left it. They presented me with somemeat, which I gave my sleigh dogs. They then lefttheir camp and accompanied us down the river. Wepassed our encampment of Dec. 24th at nine oclock,of the 23d at ten oclock, and of the 22d at eleven oclock;here the Indians crossed over to the W. shore; arrivedat the encampment of Dec. 21st at twelve oclock,where we had a barrel of flour. I here found Corporal Meek and another man fromthe post from whom I heard that the men were all well;they confirmed the account of a Sioux having fired ona sentinel; and added that the sentinel had first madehim drunk and then turned him out of the tent; uponwhich he fired on the sentinel and ran oflp, but promisedto deliver himself up in the spring. The corporal in-formed me that the s
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