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mill erected in his town, and appeared earnestly desirous of promoting the improvement of his people. The Shawanese, the Raven and his wife, and the Beaver and Crow listened in silence. The dress and mantle of the Raven bore a close resemblance to those worn by Marpau, and were of similar material. He was esteemed the greatest hunter of the Potowatomies, and occasionally visited the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of game, and on his last excursion to that distant range, had killed a grizzly bear of immense weight and size, whose skin, dressed with the claws and teeth attached, he wore on this occasion, thrown over his shoulders. His face was painted; the cheeks and forehead black, and across one of his cheeks was a heavy dash of vermillion, which looked like a deep and gaping flesh wound. His hair, which was thick and coarse, was cut about six inches long in front, and hung about his face, but was its full length behind, and tied in several places with bands of buckskin, and powdered with red paint; and he wore on the top of his head, a small coronet of eagle's feathers, Attached to an embroidered belt hung his tobacco pouch, made of the entire skin of a beaver, and by its side his tomahawk and scalping knife. With his large and muscular proportions, ac-companied by the disfigurements of the paint, he was only saved from the appearance of a bar-