California gold book : first nugget, its discovery and discoverers, and some of the results proceeding therefrom . d Wimmer possessed the gift of quicklypicking up an understanding of the Indian talk, as wellas a very thorough knowledge of his intentions, whichalmost seemed to be intuitive. But throughout hisentire life, the great abhorrence in which Wimmer heldany degree of cruelty caused him to reach results bystrategy, rather than by open warfare. Nevertheless,he was always prepared for the latter should peacefulmeasures fail. In ] 832 the Indians on the Kankakee river were ina very discont
California gold book : first nugget, its discovery and discoverers, and some of the results proceeding therefrom . d Wimmer possessed the gift of quicklypicking up an understanding of the Indian talk, as wellas a very thorough knowledge of his intentions, whichalmost seemed to be intuitive. But throughout hisentire life, the great abhorrence in which Wimmer heldany degree of cruelty caused him to reach results bystrategy, rather than by open warfare. Nevertheless,he was always prepared for the latter should peacefulmeasures fail. In ] 832 the Indians on the Kankakee river were ina very discontented state. They seemed to have for-gotten the decisive defeats sustained in their battleswith the forces under Gen. Harrison a few years before,and on every occasion they protested against the inva-sion of their prairie hunting grounds by the against the settlers were frequent, and thelosses of horses and cattle an every day an unguarded settler was killed, and hismutilated body left where it fell. These occurrencesterrorized the pioneers without inclining them to CALIFORI^IA GOLD BOOK. 21 treat. They had come to stay, and felt sure they werebut the advance guard of a vast population. In the early fall of 1832, signs which were startlinglysignificant to Wimmer, convinced him that the savageswere preparing for a general massacre of the settlerson the Illinois river. The disappearance of grffeingstock was more frequent. Small bands of strange In-dians were seen in the vicinity of the , with two or three red men to each, were knownto pass down the Kankakee into the Illinois Indians met by white men were surly and in-solent . It was learned that a camp was forming onthe river bank just below the mouth of the Kankakee,and but a few miles from the Wimmer cabin. Afthattime the settlement contained over a dozen families,besides Peter, Polly and their four children. It wasdetermined by the, white men in council
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