I  had  a  map  of  the  western  states,  that  is  of  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  and
the  Territories  of  Michigan  &  Northwest.  I  took  it  out  to  learn  about  where
we  were.  The  Indians  gathered  around  and  were  veiy  much  interested  to
see  it.  They  wanted  to  know,  after  learning  the  nature  of  it,  where  such
and  such  places  were.  I  pointed  them  out  to  Louis  and  he  told  them.  They
would  ask  what  such  a  river  was,  the  name  of  it;  Louis  could  tell  them  in
their  tongue.  They  picked  out  the  situation  of  their  village  by  the  situa-
tion of  the  river,  and  told  how  long  it  would  take  an  Indian  to  go  to  Galena,
which  would  make  it  about  sixty  miles. t  And  they  also  said  that  an  Indian
could  go  to  the  mouth  of  the  Milwaukee  and  back  in  a  day,  and  that  is  the
way  they  reckon  distances,  knowing  nothing  about  miles.  They  pointed  to

*We  have  been  unable  to  identify  this  chief.
TOn  a  straight  line  Galena,  Illinois,  is  about  eighty  miles  from  Richmond  Town-
ship, and  the  mouth  of  the  Milwaukee  River  is  about  forty-five  miles.  Solomon
Juneau,  the  early  Milwaukee  trader,  had  in  his  employ  an  Indian  who  regularly
made  the  ninety-mile  trip  between  Milwaukee  and  Chicago  between  sunrise  and
sunset,  which  would  indicate  that  ninety  miles  in  a  day  was  a  standard  perform-
ance for  an  Indian  runner.
