Early times and events in Wisconsin

              1830] Lockwood's Narrative 137
naturally be the conduct of a w^ar party of Indians, that I at first, believed him, but we stopped shortly after for dinner, and although the men pretended to be much afraid of the Indians, I discovered- something in their conduct that satisfied me, that it was a hoax. They pro^posed to turn back to Prairie du Chien for fear of the Indians^ but I told them that I was never in the habit of turning- back through fear, until I saw there w^as really danger, and that I did not require them to run any risk which I would not myself freely share.
We finally proceecled on quietly until near the mouth of Eiverie AuBkeuf or Buffalo Eiver, when Armstrong and the man who came down with him, who were actually in great fear, as they were not in the secret of the plot, discovered an Indian on the bluffs below its mouth, or imagined they did, and gave the alarm of ^^Chip- pewa!" But we met some Sioux at the foot of the bluffs, and they said that it could not be Ohipipewas, as they had the day before been hunting over there and thought it proba.ble that some of their people might still be hunting there. So we proceeded to a point opjDO'site to the mouth of the Chippewa Eiver, and encamped for the night
So much had been said about danger from the Chippewas, that I began to believe there was something in it, and must confess that the next morning I entered the narrow mouth of the Chip¬ pewa, fringed with bushes., with some fear that some Indian might be hid, and fire upon us without giving notice of his presence; but once in, the feeling, of fear wore off, and we proceeded on with little to eat until about 10 o^dock, when we came to a MeDom onee lodge^ where we found a gTeat deal of venison, and a quan¬ tity stuck up around the fire cooking, to which we did ample justice. We then proceeded about ten miles up the river, where w^e found the boat and three Americans w^ho had remained with it But they refused, as well as the Canadians to go back to the mill under the superintendence of Armstrong; and from all ac¬ counts of the men, as well as from what I had seen of him, I was