He had also, perhaps, a shrewd Indian inkling that some presents might be distributed here during the season.
[Footnote 20: Chemoquemon, an American; from _Gitchee_ great, _moquemon_ a knife.] _10th_.

A strange-looking Indian came in from the forest wearing an American silver medal.

He looked haggard and forsaken.

It will be recollected by those who have read my _Narrative Journal_ of the expedition of 1820, that Governor Cass became lost and entangled among the sharp mountainous passes of the River Ontonagon, in his attempts to reach the party who had, at an early part of the day, gone forward to the site of the Copper Rock; and that he bestowed a medal on a young Chippewa, who had rendered his party and himself services during its stay on that river.

This individual was among the earlier visitors who presented himself at my office.