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Rh they always feared to enter into an open war with any of their branches or relatives.

Another considerable band located themselves at Suk-a-aug-un-ing towards Green Bay. They are now known as the Pelican Lake band. In 1848 this band numbered over two hundred souls. They have since been nearly cut off by the smallpox, and other diseases introduced among them by the white population, which has spread over this portion of their former country.