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Excerpt from Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi, Vol. 3: Mille Lac They have yallow waire that they make with copper, made like a starr or a half moone there hang it. Peter esprit radisson, 1660. A little wild rice and smoked fish roes to eat five or six times week which they boiled in water in earthen pots. When they wish to make a platter, bowl or spoons they trim the wood with their stone hatchets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.