﻿74 ATTACK ON MICA BAY. 



being disappointed, thought they were trifled with. 

 They determined, therefore, in council, to bring 

 matters to a crisis by expelling the aggressors, 

 and, in the autumn of 1849, made a descent upon 

 Mica Bay, and drove away the miners and their 

 families. To repel this attack a regiment was 

 ordered up from Canada, at an expense which 

 would have paid the Indians again and again : but 

 a small part of the force only reached Mica Bay, 

 to find the Chippeways gone ; the rest were driven 

 back to Saut Ste. Marie by stormy weather, not 

 without very severe sufi'ering, leading, I have been 

 informed, to loss of life. 



