Eight or ten Chippewa and Ottowa Indians were taken in a separate canoe, as hunters, and gave picturesqueness to the brigade by their costume.

There were ten Canadian voyagers of the north-west stamp.

Professor Douglass and myself were the only persons to whom separate classes of scientific duties were assigned.

A secretary and some assistants made the governor's mess consist of nine persons.

Altogether, we numbered, including guides and interpreters, about forty persons; a truly formidable number of mouths to feed in the "waste howling wilderness." Having kept and published a journal of the daily incidents of the expedition, I refer to it for details.[8] To plunge into the wilderness is truly to take one's life in his hand.