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in sharpening ploughs and upsetting (making a new edge) of axes. Into this his ? fell entirely. but he had to give much credit; and could not remember the persons and the sums, there were so many. His alphabet had not then been thought of. He desired this mode of keeping his accounts: He would represent? the person by some sign or by something like a crude?rough? profile or full length likeness: and and after it he would put as many ? round marks as there were dollars and for smaller sums, as many smaller circles, thus: for $1.75 cents he would put three circles, one large, one medium, one small--image; but this sum confused him and then he would for several dollars, five for instance, image, and so on; and after that, he would make straight marks, crossing them of every 5 or unclear five lines, one line across them--image, and if there were more tens than one, expressing each ten by a cross X--image. At last, he made the numbers, as now uses them.

In 1824 the National Council voted him a medal. On the 15th of October, 1825, they voted the establishment of a paper and printing office and the forming of a sett of types for the purpose of printing with the character invented by George Gist. On the 12th of January, 1832, the medal was sent to him, with the following letter from the Principal Chief: