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part of my journal. I also gathered some shells and took something to eat. When, having repaired our canoe, we resumed? our course and arrived at the unclear the Red Barks, famous in the early History of the Country, for a severe Indian fight. A war party of Menomenies? or Folle-a-voine? Indians, met? a party of Winebagoes? and a bloody battle was the consequence, in which the former were victorious?. The Indians say the ground was coloured red by the blood of the slain, which has never been washed out by time and is the circumstance from which it took its name. After the first day of the battle, the menomineis? pursued the Winebagoes? to Lake LeBeuf? and kept up the battle to that place, a distance of nearly one hundred miles through the wilderness. The Government have unclear the propriety? of withdrawing the troops from Fort Howard to this place, but have finally decided not to do so. The bark? is nearly perpendicular and about sixety? feet high. After proceeding about two miles farther on our way, we unclear Coloured River on the unclear side of the Bay. This stream is small at its mouth and takes it scribbled out side? in unclear Lake about a hundred + forty miles in the unclear, where the American Fur Company have a trading house under the control of my host, who is now returning to their unclear at Mackinac?, to settle his unclear for the last year.