plonty, and gracious hospitality among the ancient Winncba goes with the picture of their descendants -only two gener ations later-hunted, driven, starved? And how can we bear to contrast the pieture of the drunken, ganbling Winncbago of Minnesota with this pictnre whieh Captain Carver gives of a young Winnebago chief with whom he journeyed for a few days?

Captain Carver, after a four days' visit wit the Winncba- goes, and "having made some presents to the good cld queen, and reccived her blessing," went on his way. Two months later, as he was travelling to the Falls of St. Anthony, he en- countered a young Winnebago chicf going some of the bands of the "Nadouwessies" (Sioux). This young chief, finding that Caplain Carver was about to visit the Falls, agreed to accompany him, "his coriosity having been often ex cited by the accounts he had received from some of his chiefs. on an emassy to He accordingly left his family (for the Indians never travel with out their households) servant, and we proceeded together by land, attended only by my Fronchman, to this celebrated place. henr the noise of the water full fifty miles before we reached at this place under eharge of my Mohawl We could distinctly the Fals; and I was greatly pleased and surprised when I ap- proached this astonishing work of nature; but I was not long liberty to indulge these emotions, my attention being ealled off by the behavior of my companion. The prince had no at gaincd the point that ovorlooks this wonderful cascade sooncr than he began with an audible voice to address the Great Spir- it, one of whose places of residence he imagined this to be. IHe told him that he had come a long way to pay his adora tions to him, and now would make him the best offerings in his power. Ile accordingly threw his pipe into the stream; then the roll that contained lis tobacco; after these the brace- lets he wore on his arms and wrists; next an ornament that cn eircled his neck, composed of beads and wires; and at last the