25th.  Rev. Mr. Lukenbach, of the Moravian towns, Canada, writes, that the proportional annuity of the Christian Indians, for 1838, is unpaid.  He says they were paid 33/100ths, in 1837, being one-third of the original annuity.  He states that Mr. Vogler and Mr. Mickeh arrived on the Kanzas with upwards of seventy souls, having left nearly one hundred at Green Bay, who are to follow them; and that these two men have commenced a new mission among the Delawares.  Mr. L. says that there are but about one hundred and twenty souls left, who propose to remain in Canada with him.

30th.  Ke-bic!  An exclamation of the Algonquins in passing dangerous rocky shores in their canoes, when the current is strong.  Query.  Is not this the origin of the name Quebec?

May 2d.  Major Garland, my predecessor in the disbursements, writes from Washington:  “You have a heavy task on your hands for this season; and, in addition to the hands of Briareus, you will need the eyes of Argus.”

3d.  I made the payments to the Saginaw chiefs in specie, under the treaty of the 14th of January, 1837.

10th.  Mr. F.W.  Shearman, the able and ingenious editor of the Journal of Education, writes from Marshall, that it receives an increased circulation and excites a deeper interest in the people, with his plans for further improvements.

16th.  Letters from Mackinack informs me that the Ottawas design leaving their location in the United States for the Manitouline Islands, in Canada, where inducements are held out to them by agents of the British government.  They fear going west:  they cling to the north.

20th.  The Harpers, publishers at New York, send me copies of the first issue of my Algic Researches, in two vols., 12mo.  They intend to publish the work on the 1st proximo.

23d.  Letters from Washington speak of the treasury as being low in specie funds.

24th.  Sales of the lands of the Swan Creek and Black River Chippewas, are made at the Land Office in Detroit, in conformity with the treaty of May 9th, 1836.  The three years that have elapsed in this operation, have brought the prices of lands from the summer heat to the zero of prices.

27th.  Na, in the Algonquin language, means excellent or transcendent, and wa, motion.  Thus the names of two chiefs who visited me to day on business, are Na-geezhig, excellent or transcendent day, and Ke-wa-geezhig, or returning cloud.  Whether the word geezhig shall be rendered day, or cloud, or sky, depends on the nature of its prefix.  To move back is ke-wa, and hence the prefixed term to the latter name.

June 4th.  Received from Col.  De Garme Jones, Mayor of Detroit, sundry manuscript documents relative to the administration of Indian affairs of Gov.  Hull, of the dates of 1807, ’8 and ’9.