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settlers, with circumstances of the most revolting barbarity, 

 and the captivity of a great number more. In 1752 one of 

 those hostile irruptions, so common among the savages of 

 this continent, took place between the Outagamis and Mitchi- 

 gamis, which is thus related by Bossu, a French traveller, 

 who was in the country at the time : — 



"In 1752, the Kahokias met six Outagamis hunting. 

 They took them prisoners, and burned them. One of the 

 Outagamis escaped, however, from the stake, and having 

 returned to his nation, related to them what had been done 

 to his companions. The chief of the nation called an assem- 

 bly, in which it was resolved to send bundles of rods to mark 

 the number of warriors and the day of departure to their 

 allies, the Sioux, Sakis and Kikapoos, who went with the 

 Outagamis to the number of 1000, to revenge the death of 

 their brothers who had been burned by the Kahokias. They 

 embarked in 180 canoes on the river Wisconsin, and de- 

 scending that stream and the Missisippi, landed near a vil- 

 lage of the Michigamis or Missigamis, below the Fort of 

 Kahokia, with which tribe it appears the Kahokias, who had 

 burned their countrymen, were domesticated. The com- 

 mander of the allied invaders ordered ten or twelve of the 

 best runners to throw themselves into the village, which was 

 immediately done. They fell upon the enemy's village, and 

 killed all they met, sounding the death dry, and having dis- 

 charged their arms fled with great speed. The Missigamis 

 pursued. The Outagamis and their allies lying concealed in 

 the tall grass, discharged their arrows at the approaching foe, 

 by which twenty-eight were killed, and immediately fell upon 

 the village, and killed men, women, and children, set fire to 

 the village, and led away captives those who were not slaugh- 

 tered. This battle took place on the 6th of June, 1752. 

 The Outagamis lost four men : the Missigamis, in killed and 



