... occupied in these cares, contentedly ate their bread and maple syrup, chewed their kinni-kinnic, and were happy. There were men who ran the mails, generally Mitiffs, or half-breed Indians, and Mr. Davis mentioned one who ran forty miles in a day, with a heavy sack of mail. He did it by resting five minutes at every five miles. Chippewa was the court language of the Indian world, and these voy...