They seem, with the birds, to have been the island's only inhabitants, and to have increased and multiplied to a remarkable extent, small portions of the island's surface being actually formed of immense accumulations of reindeer bones.
[Footnote 11: The Isle of Yellow Sands, famed in legend for its terrible serpents and ogre sixty feet high, was subsequently identified with the Ile de Pont Chartrain, which is distant sixty miles from the north shore of Lake Superior.] Amongst the birds of the island, besides geese and pigeons, were hawks.

No serpents whatever were seen by the party, but Henry remarks that the hawks nearly made up for them in abundance and ferocity.

They appeared very angry at the intrusion of these strangers on the sacred island, and hovered round perpetually, swooping at their faces and even carrying off their caps.
In 1775 Henry, having been greatly disappointed over an attempt to work the copper of Lake Superior, entered with vigour into a fur trade with the north-west.

He penetrated from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods and reached the great Lake Winnipeg.

Here he encountered the Kristino,[12] Knistino, or Kri Indians.