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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 mush? thickened with the inner bark f the maple tree an excellent make shift for latter food in his travels among the Ojibway in rigourous weather.