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 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY 49 Sioux on the warpath against the Illinois and the Miami nations. This party accompanied the Frenchmen up the river, evidently in doubt as to whether they should scalp them or treat them as friends. On their way up the party slept one night in April or May, 1680, at the head of Lake Pepin, near Point La Saub. A few leagues up the river, probably about where Red "Wing is now located, Hennepin and his party landed. A chief, probably Red Wing, went clown to tlie shore, and telling the party to leave their canoes, pulled up three piles of grass for seats. Then taking a piece of cedar full of little holes he placed a stick into one and revolved it between the palms of his hands until he kindled a fire. During the meeting the chief informed the Frenchmen that they would be at Mille Lacs in six days. According to Hennepin the whites were held in captivity; according to Accaidjb they were not. At any rate, they went northward with the Indians and went to the region of Mille Lacs, where they arrived early in May, Permission was then given to Hennepin and Auguelle (Pickard) to return in a canoe down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Wisconsin, where they hoped to find a reinforcement of Frenchmen as well as goods and ammunition. Meantime Accault was left with the Indians, possibly as a hostage. On this voyage down the river, Hennepin and Pickard again passed the bluffs of Goodhue county. Further down the river they w T ere again cap- tured, according to Hennepin, and finding no Frenchmen at the spot where they hoped, late in July the party of Indians and Frenchmen made their way up the Mississippi and met DuLuth and several French soldiers who had come from Lake Superior by the canoe route of the Brule and St. Croix rivers. They all then went back to the Isanti villages near Mille Lacs, where DuLuth the previous year had met the Indians in council and endeavored to show them what benefits they would receive from trading with the French. DuLuth sharply reprimanded the sav- ages for their attitude toward Hennepin and his companions, who henceforth had no reason to complain of their treatment. In the autumn (1681), on pretense of bringing goods to establish a trad- ing post, DuLuth, Hennepin and other Frenchmen were allowed to depart. On their journey down the Mississippi they again passed Goodhue county, this time with DuLuth and his companions. According to Sieur DuLuth, the Indians near the source of Run river, this state, near the latter end of September, 1681, held a great council, at which Ousicoude (Wacoota), the head chief, prepared for them a chart of the route, by the way of the Mis- sissippi and Wisconsin, to Green Bay. "Minnesota Historical Collections, volume 1, page 316 (note). The name of the chief in Dakota was Wazikute (Wah-zee-koo-tay), or the 'Shooter of the Pines.' Long's expedition in 1823 met a Dakota at Red Wing