PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 down to the lower lake region to trade with 

 them for their furs. During the summer season 

 they fished and picked berries, as these were 

 what they lived on mostly during the heated 

 seasons. In the fall they would return to the 

 Kankakee hunting grounds where one of their 

 main camps was located on a long point of the 

 mainland or ridge that projected far out into the 

 swamp and near the mouth of Sandy Hook. 

 This place was known as "Indian Garden" and 

 hundreds of Indians camped there during the 

 hunting seasons. There was another Indian 

 camping ground a few miles below this on the 

 same side of the river known as the "Indian Is- 

 land," and of which I will speak later on. Scott 

 having his store on this old Indian trail brought 

 him face to face with hundreds of Pottowatto- 

 mies, while Haskins camped and hunted for 

 nearly two years and was the first white hunter 

 to camp on Indian Island. Scott sold his store 

 to a Frenchman, then he and Haskins returned 

 to the East. They never heard or got trace of 



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