Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . n 1763. From this period their decline into a subordinate positionamong other tribes, and their inability to defend themselves,rendered them an easy prey to their fellow savages. Theywere hemmed in by relentless foes on all sides. On the south-east were the Shawnees, who, in a bloody engagement with theTamaroas, nearly exterm
Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . n 1763. From this period their decline into a subordinate positionamong other tribes, and their inability to defend themselves,rendered them an easy prey to their fellow savages. Theywere hemmed in by relentless foes on all sides. On the south-east were the Shawnees, who, in a bloody engagement with theTamaroas, nearly exterminated that tribe; to the northeastwere the Kickapoos and Pottawatomies, against whose attacksthey were able to oppose but a feeble resistance. In 1769, having been charged with the assassination ofPontiac, some tribes with whom that great chief was con-nected attacked them from the north. Fugitive bands of theIllinois, fleeing from these warriors, sought to defend them-selves in their ancient village of LaVantum, which they rudelyjfortified. Here a sanguinary engagement took place whicllasted two days. Seeing that they were likely to be overcome,during a stormy night they sought refuge on the projectingbluff near by which had been the site of Fort St. Louis. Here. ABORIGINES—ORIGIN, LOCATION, AND HABITS. 43 they were again assaulted and besieged for twelve days. Whenat length their provisions were exhausted and they were un-able to obtain water, hunger and thirst accomplished what theirrelentless foes had been powerless to effect. Determined tosell their lives as dearly as possible, those who were able madea last desperate sortie, but fell easy victims to their watchfulenemies below, who, gaining access to the top of the cliff,satiated their vengeance in true savage fashion by the unspar-ing use of the tomahawk upon their now defenceless foes whohad been too feeble to join in the last desperate one, a half-breed, escaped to tell the tale. Their tragicfate and
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