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at the Other end of the portage. A partial action ensued. 

 It was rendered general by the arrival of the whole Chip- 

 pewa force. It was a fierce and bloody action. The Foxes 

 made a resolute stand. But they were overpowered and 

 fled ; and they have not since reappeared in that region. 

 Among the slain several Sioux were found ; and this is said 

 to be the first actual testimony of the Sioux being leagued 

 with them in the war against the Chippewas. But this as- 

 sertion is hardly reconcileable with the date of the war in 

 other places. Wahbojeeg or the White Fisher, who is 

 noticed as the leader on this occasion, is said to have led out 

 seven other expeditions against the Foxes and Sioux. He 

 died at Chegoimegon, in Lake Superior, in 1793." 



The Sauks and Foxes took no part in the war of 1812. 

 A body of them left their place on Rock River, and wxnt to 

 the Lake and offered their services to the British. But tak- 

 ing disgust at the atrocities of some of the allies practised 

 upon the Americans, they soon returned to their village, and 

 remained inactive during the war. 



They are generally a tall, w^ell-made people, with faces 

 expressive of more intellect than would be found in an equal 

 number of whites taken by chance, even with the advan- 

 tages which the latter possess in education. In character 

 and manners they are very respectable and dignified. Brave, 

 pacific, hospitable, honest and generous ; the condition of 

 civilisation, the habit of industry and the discipline of educa- 

 tion, would make them equal to the best men in any country. 

 Their ideas of the social duties are very good ; and it is the 

 custom for one of their principal men to go through the vil- 

 lage daily, at sunrise, exhorting all to do good. Wennebea, 

 who accompanied Maj. Long, was a Sauk of a reflecting and 

 judicious mind, and of a moral disposition. 



Major Long says, with a view to ascertain what were 



