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In the evening we again had the company of the chiefs, they having been invited by our landlord to take supper with us. 3d. This day rainy, and spent chiefly atWilliam Wells'. Besides the garrison stationed here, there is a large store of goods established by the United States, for the purpose of suppplying the Indians. The store is kept by our landlord. Several Canadian traders also reside here, who exchange goods with the Indians; some of them have re-sided here for more than thirty years. The In-dians are daily arriving with their peltry, some of them exchange them for goods, others re-quire money. The women bring sugar, which is generally neatly packed in a square box made of bark, containing about fifty pounds. It is made from the sugar tree. This art has long been known to the Indians. They make and use large quantities of sugar. We have seen very white and clear looking sugar of their manu-facture. 4th. Rode about two miles up the St. Mary's river and viewed the remains of old Indian houses, also the fields on which they cultivated corn, where the corn hills are still discernible. We also observed large numbers of Indian graves. These are now discernible only by the sunken cavities in the surface of the earth. In the course of our route we have seen many Indian graves of more recent date. They bury their