. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . trenchtncnts, their courage greatly fear they recallcxi the exaggerations of Tonti respecting theirnumbers, and concludetl to send him with a hostage to make over-tures of peace. He aiul his liostago were received with dilight bythe Illinois, who readily assented to the pro*j>osal which iiebnmgh
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . trenchtncnts, their courage greatly fear they recallcxi the exaggerations of Tonti respecting theirnumbers, and concludetl to send him with a hostage to make over-tures of peace. He aiul his liostago were received with dilight bythe Illinois, who readily assented to the pro*j>osal which iiebnmght,and ir> turn sent back with him a hostage to the Irm^uois. On hisreturn to the fort his life was again jdaced in jeopardv, and tlietreaty was with great difficulty ratifieil. The young and inexpe-rienced Illinois hostage betrayed to his crafty interviewers the nu-merical weakness of his trilK, and the savages immediately rusheduponTonti,and charged him with having deprived them of the spoilsand honors of victory. It now recjuired all the tact of which he wasmaster to escape. Attcr much difficulty however, the treatv was con-cluded, but the savages, to show their contempt for it, iramediatelvcommenced constructing canoes in which to descend the river andattack the ■^OiiUSS^ AN IROQUOIS CIIIKK. UI8TOKV OF ILLINOIS. 39 FRENCHMEN DRIVEN AWAY. Tonti managed to apprise the latter of their designs, and he andMeinbre were soon after summoned to attend a council of the Iro-quois, who still labored under a wholesome fear of Count Frontenac,and disliking to attack the Illinois in the presence of the French,they thought to try to induce them to leave the country. At theassembling of the council, six packages of beaver skins were intro-duced, and the savage orator, presenting them separately to Tonti,explained the nature of each. The first two, said he, were to de-clare that the children of Count Frontenac, that is, the Illinois,should not be eaten; the next was a plaster
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