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Island, being a distance of about nine miles. Which on their way over a storm arose and drove them back against this perpendicular precipice, broke their canoes to pieces and every soul perished. The Indians, to perpetuate the event have cut the six canoes on the rock and masked eight Indians in each, making a total of forty eight. We crossed this traverse + continued a group of Islands -- passed Bayui Bluff, a bold and commanding Head land of perhaps? two hundred feet high, called after Cal Bayer, a former officer of the Army, and late Indian Agent at Chicago. On the top of this mountain is a Lake of about two miles in circumference, well supplied with pike, carp, unclear fish and perch.

We now reached Louse Island which is at the entrance of Green Bay from Lake Michigan. It is a grand and magnificent mass of rock, covered with vegetation and timber. On the north side is about sixty feet of perpendicular rock, and disends in the same divided manner below the surface of the water. It appears like a heavy pile of Gothic Architecture and is one of the most commanding Head lands that I have ever seen. This Island was formerly called Pattawatimic, after a tribe of Indians on the south side of Lake Michigan. But this people having unclear from the neighboring tribes the town of Siee?, out of reproach, the island is still called after them by the other Indians, by the offensive? appellation of Louse. -- We now left the Bay and entered on the blue waters of Lake Michigan, and enjoying from Louse Island, passed unclear and several other islands -- arrived at White? Island, composed of land and stones, and not having a tree on it. Here we landed and gathered about a hundred and fifty Gulls'? eggs for the purpose of helping out our provisions which were nearly exhausted, as we had been five days already on the voyage and only started with four days provision and had not yet reached halfway. Our Host shot a duck+ a unclear. Here we found the strawberry early in blossom, though in our former encampment, it was ripe in abundance.

Continuing our course, we observed the smoke of an Indian lodge on our Island on our left and a partial clearing where there people laid their corn?. We reached another Island nearly opposite? + landed for the purpose of resting our men + preparing some supper which being unclear unclear, From Ottawa Indians came over to us in a canoe; not having much to eat, we sent them home to bring us some fish, and in about a hour we heard them yelling and shouting after they landed, with a supply of Sturgeon which we purchased with