Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin

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pe-na-se,  or  The Black Bird, shot the  enraged Frendhman dead.
The garrison w^as too weak to attempt the chastisement of the Sauks, but upon the arrival of a reinforcement, joined by the French settlers, Charles De Langlade among them, the Sauks were attacked at their village, when a severe battle occurred^ in which several were killed on both sides, and the Sauks finally driven away. In this Sauk battle, two of my father's uncles were among the slain on the part of the French. The Sauks now retired to the Wisconsin river and located themselves at Sauk Prairie, where they still resided, and had a fine village^ with comfortable houses, and apparently doing something in mining lead, when Carver visited the country in 1766, but which appeared to have been several years deserted when I first saw the place, in 1795, as there were then only a few remains of fire-places and posts to be seen. The brave young Sauk,. Black Bird, became a distinguished chief among his people, and Mr. Laurent Fily, an old trader, told me m;any years sincCy that he knew Black Bird well at the Sauk village at the mouth of Rock river, and that he lived to a good old age—and Fily added, that he w;as the same person w^ho in his youth had so- fearlessly shot De Velie.
Capt Morand, a native of France, and a prominent trader among the Sauks, and the Indians on the Mississippi, had a place of deposit on the bank of the Mississippi, I think on the eastern bank of the river, and about eight or nine miiles be¬ low the mouth of the Wisconsin, called Fort Morand. He had another depot, nine miles west of Mackinaw, also known as Fort Morand. The repeated exactions of the Foxes in the ^hape of tribute, while xDrosecuting his trade between Mackinaw and the Mississippi, through Green Bay and Fox river, so vexed Morand, that he resolved on driving them from! their position; and raising a small volunteer force at Mackinaw, increased doubtless at Green Bay, and by the friendly Indi-