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III.
Arrival at Green Bay--Mrs. Arnot--General Root--Political
Dispatches--A Summerset--Shanty-Town--M. Rolette--Indian Morning
Song--Mr. Cadle's Mission--Party at Miss Doty's--Misses
Grignon--Mrs. Baird's Party--Mrs. Beall

CHAPTER IV.
Arrangements for Travelling--Fox River--Judge Doty--Judge
Réaume--M. Boilvin--Canadian Voyageurs: their Songs--The
Kakalin--Wish-tay-yun--Rev. Eleazar Williams--Passage through the
Rapids--Grande Chûte--Krissman

CHAPTER V.
Beautiful Encampment--Winnebago Lake--Miss 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--Piché'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 Liberté

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--Crély--Follett--Bravery--The Little Elk--An
Alarm--Man-Eater and his Party--An Exciting Dance

CHAPTER XXXIII.
Fleeing from the Enemy--Mâtâ--Old Smoker--Meeting with
Menomonees--Raising the Wind--Garlic Island--Winnebago
Rapids--The Waubanakees--Thunder-Storm--Vitelle--Guardapié--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 Chûte--A Wet Encampment--An Unexpected
Arrival--Reinforcement of Volunteers--La Grosse Américaine--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