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Councils were held at various points and presents distributed. 

 And lbs pauses afforded by these assemblages, and by the ne- 



.rv delayi rfcnd transportation, furnished opportuni- 



rving notes on Ihe manner of living, sroong those 

 bends, and their population, traditions and i well as 



the geographical features and the natural hie the country. 



On entering the Mississippi, the truth of the information, derived 

 on Lake Superior, respecting its depressed st verined. 



Extensive portions of its outer channel and bars, were found 

 . and dry. The party encamped on a sand bar formed 

 by the junction of the Chippewa, which is usually several feet 

 under water. 



From the mouth of the Chippewa, the expedition descended" 

 the Mississippi to Galena, in Illinois. While at Prairie du Chicn, 

 the murder of twenty-six Monomonee men, women, and chil- 

 dren, by a war party of the Sacs and Foxes, which had trans- 

 pired a few days previous, was the subject of exciting interest. 

 It was narrated with all its attrocious circumstance. A Hag 

 waved over the common grave of the slain, and several of the 



mded Monomonces, who had escaped the massacre, * 

 examined and conversed with. This affray unparalleled for its 

 boldness and turpitude, having occurred in the village of Prairie 

 du Chien. in the hearing of its inhabitants, and in sight of the 

 fort, was made the subject of demand by the government for 

 the surrendry of the murderers, and produced the concentration 

 of troops on that frontier, which eventuated in the Indian war 

 of 1S32. Some excitement was also felt at Galena, and its vi- 

 cinity, in consequence of the menacing attitude which the Sacs 

 and Foxes had recently assumed, in the vicinity of Rock Island, 

 and a general mistrust felt of their sincerity in the treaty con- 

 cluded with the United States a short time previous. 



At Galena, the exploring party separated, part returning in 

 canoes up the Wisconsin, and part crossing the mine country, 



r the branches of the Pekatolika, and by the way of the Blue 

 Mounds, to fort Winnebago. From this point, Fox River was 



