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Four-Legs--Garlic Island--Wild Rice

CHAPTER VI.
Breakfast at Betty More's--Judge Law--Fastidiousness; what came of it

CHAPTER VII.
Butte des Morts--French Cognomens--Serpentine Course of Fox River--Lake Puckaway--Lac de Boeuf--Fort Winnebago.

CHAPTER VIII.
Major and Mrs. Twiggs--A Davis--An Indian Funeral--Conjugal Affliction--Indian Chiefs; Talk-English--The Wild-Cat--The Dandy

CHAPTER IX.
Housekeeping--The First Dinner

CHAPTER X.
Indian Payment--Pawnee Blanc--The Washington Woman--Raising Funds

CHAPTER XI.
Louisa--Garrison Life--Dr. Newhall--Affliction--Domestic Accommodations--Ephraim--New-Year's Day--Native Custom--Day-kau-ray's Views of Education--Captain Harney's Mince-Pie

CHAPTER XII.
Lizzie Twiggs--Preparation for a Journey--The Regimental Tailor

CHAPTER XIII.
eparture from Fort Winnebago--Duck Creek--Upset in a Canoe--Pillon--Encamping in Winter--Four Lakes--Indian Encampment--Blue Mound--Morrison's--A Tennessee Woman

CHAPTER XIV.
Rev. Mr. Kent--Losing One's Way--A Tent Blown Down--Discovery of a Fence--Hamilton's Diggings--Frontier Housekeeping--Wm. S. Hamilton--A Miner--Hard Riding--Kellogg's Grove

CHAPTER XV.
Rock River--- Dixon's--John Ogie--Missing the Trail--Hours of Trouble--Famine in the Camp--Relief

CHAPTER XVI.
A Pottowattamie Lodge--A Tempest--Pich��'s--Hawley's--The Du Page--Mr. Dogherty--The Aux Plaines--Mrs. Lawton--Wolf Point--Chicago

CHAPTER XVII.
Fort Dearborn--Chicago in 1831--First Settlement of Chicago--John Kinzie, Sen.---Fate of George Forsyth--Trading Posts--Canadian Voyageurs--M. St. Jean--Louis la Libert��

CHAPTER XVIII.
Massacre at Chicago

CHAPTER XIX.
Massacre, continued--Mrs. Helm--Ensign Ronan--Captain Wells--Mrs. Holt--Mrs. Heald--The Sau-ga-nash--Sergeant Griffith--Mrs. Burns--Black Partridge and Mrs. Lee--Nau-non-gee and Sergeant Hays

CHAPTER XX.
Treatment of American Prisoners by the British--Captivity of Mr. Kinzie--Battle on Lake Erie--Cruelty of General Proctor's Troops--General Harrison--Rebuilding of Fort Dearborn--Red Bird--A Humorous Incident--Cession of the Territory around Chicago

CHAPTER XXI.
Severe Spring Weather--Pistol-Firing--Milk Punch--A Sermon--Pre-emption to "Kinzie's Addition"--Liberal Sentiments

CHAPTER XXII.
The Captives

CHAPTER XXIII.
Colonel McKillip--Second-Sight--Ball at Hickory Creek--Arrival of the "Napoleon"--Troubles of Embarkation

CHAPTER XXIV.
Departure for Port Winnebago--A Frightened Indian--Encampment at Dunkley's Grove--Horses Lost--Getting Mired--An Ague cured by a Rattlesnake--Crystal Lake--Story of the Little Rail

CHAPTER XXV.
Return Journey, continued--Soldiers' Encampment--Big-Foot Lake--Village of Maunk-suck--A Young Gallant--Climbing--Mountain-Passes--Turtle Creek--Kosh-ko-nong--Crossing a Marsh--Twenty-Mile Prairie--Hastings's Woods--Duck Creek--Brunet--Home

CHAPTER XXVI.
The Agency--The Blacksmith's House--Building a Kitchen--Four-Legs, the Dandy--Indian Views of Civilization--Efforts of M. Mazzuchelli--Charlotte

CHAPTER XXVII.
The Cut-Nose--The Fawn--Visit of White Crow--Parting with Friends--Krissman--Louisa again--The Sunday-School

CHAPTER XXVIII.
Plante--Removal--Domestic Inconveniences--Indian Presents--Grandmother Day-kau-ray--Indian Customs--Indian Dances--The Medicine-Dance--Indian Graves--Old Boilvin's Wake

CHAPTER XXIX.
Indian Tales--Story of the Red Fox

CHAPTER XXX.
Story of Shee-shee-banze

CHAPTER XXXI.
Visit to Green Bay--Disappointment--Return Journey--Knaggs's--Blind Indian--Ma-zhee-gaw-gaw Swamp--Bellefontaine

CHAPTER XXXII.
Commencement of the Sauk War--Winnebago Council--Cr��ly--Follett--Bravery--The Little Elk--An Alarm--Man-Eater and his Party--An Exciting Dance

CHAPTER XXXIII.
Fleeing from the Enemy--Mata--Old Smoker--Meeting with Menomonees--Raising the Wind--Garlic Island--Winnebago Rapids--The Waubanakees--Thunder-Storm--Vitelle--Guardapi��--Fort Howard

CHAPTER XXXIV.
Panic at Green Bay--Tidings of Cholera--Green Bay Flies--Doyle, the Murderer--Death of Lieutenant Foster--A Hardened Criminal--Good News from the Seat of War--Departure for Home--Shipwreck at the Grand Ch?te--A Wet Encampment--An Unexpected Arrival--Reinforcement of Volunteers--La Grosse Am��ricaine--Arrival at Home

CHAPTER XXXV.
Conclusion of the War--Treaty at Rock Island--Cholera among the Troops--Wau-kaun-kah--Wild-Cat's Frolic at the Mee-kan--Surrender of the Winnebago Prisoners

CHAPTER XXXVI.
Delay in the Annual Payment--Scalp-Dances--Groundless Alarm--Arrival of Governor Porter--Payment--Escape of the Prisoners--Neighbors Lost--Reappearance--Robineau--Bellaire

CHAPTER XXXVII.
Agathe--"Kinzie's Addition"--Tomah--Indian Acuteness--Indian Simplicity

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Famine--Day-kau-ray's Daughter--Noble Resolution of a Chief--Bread for the Hungry--Rev. Mr. Kent--An Escaped Prisoner--The Cut-Nose again--Leave-taking with our Red Children--Departure from Fort Winnebago
APPENDIX

THE "EARLY DAY" IN THE NORTHWEST.

CHAPTER I.
DEPARTURE FROM DETROIT.
It was on a dark, rainy evening in the month of September, 1830, that we went on board the steamer "Henry Clay," to take passage for Green Bay. All our friends in Detroit had congratulated us upon our good fortune in being spared the voyage in one of the little schooners which at this time afforded the ordinary means of communication with the few and distant settlements on Lakes Huron and Michigan.
Each one had some experience to relate of his own or Of his friends' mischances in these precarious journeys--long detentions on the St. Clair flats--furious head-winds off Thunder Bay, or interminable Calms at Mackinac or the Manitous. That which most enhanced our sense of peculiar good luck, was the true story of one of our relatives having left Detroit in the month of June and reached Chicago in the September following, having been actually three months in performing what is sometimes accomplished by even a sail-vessel in four days.
But the certainty of encountering similar misadventures would have weighed little with me. I was now to visit, nay, more, to become a resident of that land which had, for long years, been to me a region of romance. Since the time when, as a child, my highest delight had been in the letters of a dear relative, describing to me his home and mode of life in the "Indian country," and still later, in his felicitous narration of a tour with General Cass, in 1820, to the sources of the Mississippi--nay, even earlier, in the days when I stood at my teacher's knee, and spelled out the long word Mich-i-li-mack-i-nac, that distant land, with its vast lakes, its boundless prairies, and its mighty forests, had possessed a wonderful charm for my imagination. Now I was to see it!--it was to be my home!
Our ride to the quay, through the dark by-ways, in a cart, the only vehicle which at that day could navigate the muddy, unpaved streets of Detroit, was a theme for much merriment, and not less so, our descent of the narrow, perpendicular stair-way by which we reached the little apartment called the Ladies' Cabin. We were highly delighted with the accommodations, which, by comparison, seemed the very climax of comfort and convenience; more especially as the occupants