source and its mouth." These were surely precarious terms for peace to rest upon, especially parties that "no tribe shall hunt within the actual limits of as it was nuderstood by all any other without their consent."

At the close of this treaty there oceurred a curionus incident, which Schooleraft calls "an experiment on the moral sense of the Indians with regard to intoxicating liquors." "It had been 8aid by the tribes that the true reason for the Commissioners of the United States spcaking against the use of ardent spirits by the Indians, and refnsing to pense, and not a sense of its bad effccts. To show them that the Government was above such a petty motire, the commis was the fear of ex give them, sioners had a long row of tin camp-kcttles, holding several gal- lons cach, placcd remarks, each kettle was spilled ont in their presencc. on the grass; and then, after some snitable The thing was ill-relished by the Indians, who loved the whiskey better than the joke."

At this time the lands of the Winnebagoes lay between the Rock and the Wisconsin rivers, along the shore of Winnebago Lake, and the Indians claimed that the whole lake belonged to them. lt was here that President Morse had found them living in 1822. Ile gives the following graphie piêtnre of their plensant home: "They have five villages on the Lake, and fourteen on Rock River. The country has abundance of springs, small lakes, ponds, and rivers; a rieh soil, producing corn and all sorts of grain. The lakes abonnd with fine-fla vorcd, firm fish." are industrious, frugal, and tenmperate. potatocs, pumpkius, sqnashes, and beans, and are remarkably provident. They numbered five hundred and cighty souls.   In 1827 a third treaty was signed by the Winnebagoes, Chippewas, and Menomonies with the United States and with each other. This treaty completed the system of boundaries of their lands, which had been only partially defined by the two Of the Indians themsclves, he says: "They They eultivate corn,