Reminiscences of the Northwest

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with iron hooks, upon which hung the kettles, holdiug a quarter of a barrel of pork, aad one or two bushels of potatoes. Then, after taking out the head of a barrel of flour, they would make a hole by removing some of the flour, pour in a pail of water^ make a great bunch of dough, put it on the soiled floor, roll it out in long rolls about two feet long, and large as a good sized rolling phi, and put it in the same pot. When cooked, it was dished up in wooden bowls; some had wooden ladles, and some wooden paddle®. They would sit on the floor to eat their deli¬ cious repast. I was often invited to partake. They called my father, their father; of course I was their sister. A young In¬ dian fell in love with me. He followed me everywhere. I wUl not attempt to describe his dress; it was too ridiculous.
My father remained at Green Bay six years; in that time I be¬ came well acquainted with the old settlers, Mr. Daniel Whitney, Grignon, Lawe, Irwin, Baird, Dickenson, Dousman, Ducharme, Martin Beal, Capt. Amdt, his sons Hamilton, Charles, and John, and his daughter Mary, who married Lieut. Cotton, of the United States Army, There I met General Winfield Scott, General Z. Taylor, with the famous Captain Martin Scott, who could shoot birds on the wing, ride his favorite horse, call out fifteen or twen¬ ty hounds, drive out into the woods and return with one or two deer; Col. Whistler, with his large family of daughters and two sons, his wife being a resident of Detroit, with whom I was iuti- mately acquainted; Mr. A. G. Ellis, who was school teacher; Eev, Mr. Cadle and his estimable sister; Eev. Eleazer Williams, who married Miss Jourdain, whose father, Joseph Jourdain, was blacksmith of the agency. I have an iron fire shovel that Jour¬ dain made.
I used to think that all Indians dressed alike. It was a mis¬ take; each tribe dresses differently. The Foxes wore dressed deer skin, soft and white, one-half of their heads shaved clean, with a great bunch of coek's feathers on the top. The Sioux dressed in deer skin, colored black, worked with porcupine qxuUs, their hair brushed up and tied on the top of their head in one large square cushion. The Winnebagoes had their blankets daubed with paiat, and large rosettes of colored ribbons; hair in