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the three Islands on Lake Simcoe, which was set apart for this
tribe many years ago. They are 109 in number, and occupy

twelve dwelling houses. They have also two barns and a school
house, in which their children are instructed by a respectable
teacher, and Divine Service is performed by a resident Mission-
ary of the Methodist persuasion, to which these Indians belong.
They have about 150 acres in cultivation, and are improving in
habits of industry and agricultural skill. Their missionary,
who has been acquainted with them since July, 1839, states that
the majority of them are strictly moral in their character, that
most of the adults are decidedly pious, and that many of them
for consistency of character, would not suffer by a comparison

with white Christians of any denomination.
J. SNAKE, Chiqf.

13. CHIPPEWAS OF SAUGEEN, (LAKE HURON.)

It was from these Indians, and their brethren, since settled
at Owen’s sound, that Sir Francis Head, in 1836, obtained a
surrender of the vast tract of land lying north of the London
and Gore Districts, and between the Home District and Lake
Huron, containing 1,600,000 acres. He reserved, at the same
time, for the Indians, the extensive peninsula, lying between
Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, north of Owen’s Sound, and
supposed to contain about 450,000 acres.

J. METEGOUB,
ALEXANDER, Clziqfr
AH-YAH-BANCE,

14. CHIPPEWAS OF BIG BAY, IN OwEN’s SOUND, LAKE HURON.

These Indians were formerly either Wanderers in the Sau-
geen tract, surrendered to Sir F. Head, or lived in scattered
wigwams, on the shores of Big Bay. According to the agree-
ment then made with them, it was proposed that they should
either repair to Manitoulin or to that part of their former terri-
tory which lies north of Owen’s sound ; upon which it was
promised “that houses should be built for them, and proper
assistance given, to enable them to become civilized, and to

cultivate land.”
JOHN JONES, gofmfil

PETER,