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ground, in the high grafs, difcharged all their 

 arms and killed twenty-eight Illinois : at the fame 

 time they fell upon the village, and killed men, 

 women and children ; fet fire to the village, and 

 bound and led away the reft as captives. 



The Foxis loft but four men in this glorious 

 expedition, one of them being a chief with a 

 medal *, of the nation of Sioux, who went with 

 them as an ally. 



I was a fpeclator of this flaughter, which hap- 

 pened on the fixth of June 1752. I was at that 

 time on a hill which overlooks the plain and the 

 village of the Mitchigamias. I had the opportu- 

 nity of faving the life of a girl of fifteen years 

 of age, who came to bring me fome ftraw^-ber- 

 berries. At the time of the attack, fhe ran 

 away, and as the enemies purfued her, fhe ran 

 into my arms, where the barbarians did not 

 venture to Ihoot at her, for fear of hitting 

 me. 



K ^ This 



* This diftin6lion, of which I have already fpoken, is 

 granted by order of the King, through his general, to the 

 jnoft valiant Indians, and who are moft attached to the 

 French nation. 



