Page 176 - La Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique - Rapport 1961

172 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

reaching which he was stripped ot his packs by some of the
old trees which had slid down the bank, through which and
over which he passed during his exciting if not fatal adventure.
I looked over the bank, and saw my poor blind horse stretched
on the sand beach, and apparently dead. The men went down
and secured the packs, but left the poor horse alone "in his
glory." We then made the best of our way to Green Bay,
where we arrived July 3d, with two hundred and ten head of
cattle. I had killed four for food, and thus forty-eight head
had strayed away. I remained two days at the Bay, when I
returned in order to find the missing cattle. I found eight
,head on Root River, some three miles above where Racine
now is; at Milwaukee 'C found a cow and calf that SOLOMON
had
JUNEAU purchased from the Indians, and I paid him what
he had paid the Indians. With these nine head of cattle and
the calf, I returned to Green Bay. The other missing thirty-
nine head had been killed by the Indians I had no doubt, as I
found a great many hides and horns that I could identify at
their villages.
Early in this year, 1.827, the Winnebagoes became quite
hostile. They attacked a keel-boat on the Alississippi, be-
tween Prairie du Chien and Fort Snelling; the crew mostly
saved themselves by laying down on the bottom of the boat.
There were thirty ball holes picrced through the sides of the
boat. About the same time, they killed a part of two families
a few miles from Prairie du Chien; one of the families, some
eight miles north-east of that place, were engaged in making
maple sugar. These depredations were reported to the Presi-
dent, and the Secretary of Wor ordered out troops to arrest
the murderers. Tliere were but a few soldiers at Green Bay.
The commanding officer at Fort IIotvard requested the citizens
to turn out as volunteen3, and unite with what force he could
spare from the fort. Gen. DICKINSON and I raised a company
of Oneida and Stockbridge Indians, sixty-two in number. We
were mustered into Col. WIIISTLER'S detachmcnt at the Little
Butte des bIorts. I had enlisted a young woman as a washer-