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-ing to sketch an old woman, I received a large portion of the Dacotah vocabulary of imprecations & exemptions of countenance. They think that I aquire some influence worthy of Hecate. I was invited to enter over them by ((unclear)) their portrait - some the lodge of the Indian* (Hoohaniaya or Iron-leg) who had brought have no such superstitions, but consider it only me down the evening before honor found him with his friends smoking & chatting. The pipe was passed round & I smoked two or three whiffs & found the "kinnikennick" quite agreeable - Their pipe - bowls are made of a red stone of close grain & susceptible of a high-polish - It seems a fine quality of sandstone & is procured at the "pipe-stone quarry" which is situated distant

The stems are of wood highly ornamented with porcupine quills, feather & horse-hair - & the Kinnekennick is the inner bark of the willow dried &