Ixil A GENERAL HISTORY

collect in the month of Auguft for their winter ftores.* To the North
of fifty degrees, it is hardly known, or at leaft does not come to

maturity.

Lake Winipic is the great refervoir of feveral large rivers, and dif-
charges itfelf by the River Nelfon into Hudfon’s Bay. The firft in
rotation, next to that I have juft defcribed, is the Affiniboin, or Red
River, which, at the diftance of forty miles coaftwife, difembogues on
the South-Weft fide of the lake Winipic. It alternately receives thofe
two denominations from its dividing, at the diftance of about thirty miles
from the lake, into two large branches. The Eaftern branch, called the
Red River, runs in a Southern dire&tion to near the head waters of the
Miffffippi. On this are two trading eftablifhments. The country on
either fide is but partially fupplied with wood, and confifts of plains co-
vered with herds of the buffalo and the elk, efpecially on the Weftern
fide. On the Eaftern fide are lakes and rivers, and the whole coun-
try is well wooded, level, abounding in beaver, bears, moofe-deer,
fallow-deer, &c. &c. The natives, who are of the Algonquin tribe,
are not very numerous, and are confidered as the natives of Lake Su-
perior. This country being near the Miffifippi, is alfo inhabited by the
Nadowafis, who are the natural enemies of the former; the head of the
water being the war-line, they are in a continual ftate of hoftility ; and
though the Algonquins are equally brave, the others generally out-num-
ber them; it is very probable, therefore, that if the latter continue to ven-

ture out of the woods, which form their only proteétion, they will foon

* The fruits are, ftrawberries, hurtleberries, plumbs, and cherries, hazlenuts, goofeberries, cur-
rants, rafpberries, poires, &c.

be