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concil smoke is still seen & the scalp dance still celebrated. while the trading house & the church are seen surrounded by Indians, half-breeds, French voyageurs, American & foreign emigrants - while birch bark canoes & pettries? lie by the side of the steamboat & the last "Yankee? notion". - Arrived at St. Pauls June 15th 1851 as the sun was setting on the unclear two indistinct forms were seen gliding close to the shore & as we approached them two canoes, one paddled by a frenchman, the other by an Indian were revealed to us - by degrees in the morning more frequent became the [[intimintions?] of savage presence. We passed Kaporia or on Little Crow's village - & then the canoes & squaws, cheifs & pasooses were frequent sights. St Pauls is situated on a bluff probably about fifty feet above the surface of the river, commanding a fine