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92 other hand lives in a wooded country and a number of plants and shrubs yield him a supply of food so that at no season of the year can he be considered as being in want. the forest yields game, the water fish and the meadows & marshes berries. The Dakota has land, his game and a few berries. The chief articles of diet of the berry kind with the Ojibway are the Wintergreen "Gaultheria procumbens." this is eaten leaves and fruit in its natural state. In the bogs and swamps of Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as Michigan, the cranberry is found in abundance and ripens in August and Sept. This is a delicate plant as the drawing shows and grows upon and among the high swamp moss and were it not for the bright red berry it would not be detected. Insert Cranberry This fruit is also eaten raw, or boiled with maple sugar when that is at hand. The inner bark of trees and the root of the Virginia Creeper or Woodbine "Ampelopsis quinquefolia." is according to Mr. Gustav Beauleau boiled and eaten. H. M. Rice, told the writer that he had found a soup made of boiled marsh ? thickened with the inner bark of the maple tree an excellent make shift for better food in his travels among the Ojibway in rigorous weather. The old indian and possible those still living in the far north used the "Slimey Moss" or as the French called it "Tripe de Roche" which they boiled and even ate uncooked. X crossed out: This is the moss that grows on the rocks and it is said to be the food of the caribo of the north in winter. The writer has endeavored to procure an authentic specimen for an illustration but as yet has not been able to do so. The old time wild rice or as the Ojibway call it "ma nomin", "rice". With the maze and melons, used from early times the staple articles of diet these the indian exerted him, or rather herself to harvest. The maze or Indian corn has been gradually dying out among the Ojibway most likely because they have been driven away from the corn country into a cold climate where it will not ripen as it should. The stalks are always stunted and the ear produces only a few kernel, some white some grey on the same ear. Melons, such as are described as being cultivated in ? of the early french writers are now no where found. The "Manomin" or "wild rice" is hence extremely harvested by the Ojibway of the northern states but little we are told grows north of the boundary of the United States. The plant is the "Zizania aquatica", of Linnaeus or Water Oats and is abundant in the shallow lakes and sluggish muddy rivers of Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota & north. The plant flowers in July and ripens the kernal in August and early September. Around the end of August The indians leave the village, take the birch bark canoe