onc year, as some small reparation for the terrible losses and sufferings they had experienced. From this word "forcyer" the Winnebagocs perhaps took courage.

At the time of their removal from Minnesota, among the fugitives who fled back to Wisconsin was the chief De Carry He died there, two years later, in great poverty. le was very old, but remarkably intelligent; he was the grandson of llo- po-ko-e-kaw, or"Glory of the Morning," who was the queen of the Winnebagoes in 1770, whon Captain Carver visited the tribe. There is nothing in Carver's quaint and fascinating old story more interesting than his account of the Wimnebago country. Ile stayed with them four days, and was entertain- ed by them "in a very distinguished manner." Indeed, if we may depend upon Captain Carver's story, all the North-western tribes were, in their own country, a gracious and hospitable pcople. He says: "I receired from every tribe of them the most hospitable and courtcous treatment, and am convinced that, till they are contaminated by the example and spirituous liquors of their more refined neighbors, they wiretain this friendly and inoffensive conduct toward strangers."

He speaks with great gusto of the bread that the Winne- bago women made from the wild maize. The soft young kernels, while full of milk, are kneaded into a paste, the cakes wrapped in bass-wood leaves, and baked in the ashcs. "Better flavored bread I never ate in any country," says the honest captain

He found the Winnebagoes' home trnly deliglıtful. The shores of the lake were wooded with hickory, oak, and hazel. Grapes, plnnis, and other frits grew in abundanee. The lake abounded in fish; and in the fall of the year with geese, ducks, and teal, the latter much better flavored than those found nearer the sea, as they "acquire thcir execssivo fatness by feeding on the wild rice which grows so plentifully in these parts."

How can we bear to contrast the picture of this peace,