. Bulletin. Ethnology. 476 SATTK [b. a. e. flags which Your Grace recovered from the Sac and Pus [Potawatomi] tribes, as I have said, thej' were replaced on this ; These extracts show the good effect of the Spanish policy in restraining the extreme western tribes from follow- ing English agents against the American colonists. Amongthe tribes of the lllinoiscountry, the Sauk in 1769 received presents from the Spaniards. In 1766 Carver found the chief town of the Sauk on Wisconsin r., probably on the site of Prairie du Sac; it consisted of about 90 lodges and 300 warriors. From the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 476 SATTK [b. a. e. flags which Your Grace recovered from the Sac and Pus [Potawatomi] tribes, as I have said, thej' were replaced on this ; These extracts show the good effect of the Spanish policy in restraining the extreme western tribes from follow- ing English agents against the American colonists. Amongthe tribes of the lllinoiscountry, the Sauk in 1769 received presents from the Spaniards. In 1766 Carver found the chief town of the Sauk on Wisconsin r., probably on the site of Prairie du Sac; it consisted of about 90 lodges and 300 warriors. From the journal of Peter Pond, 1773- 75 (Wis. Hist. Coll., xviii, 335 et seq.), the following citation concerning the habits and customs of the Sauk is made: "These People are Cald Saukeas. They are of a Good Sise and Well Disposed—• Les Inclind to tricks and Bad manners than thare Nighbers. Thay will take of the traders Goods on Creadit in the fall for thare youse. In Winter and Except for Axedant thay Pay the Deapt Verey Well for Indans I mite have sade Inlitend or Sivelised Indans which are in General made worse by the Operation. . Sum of thare Huts are Sixtey feet Long and Contanes Several fammalayes. ... In the fall of ye Year thay Leave thare Huts and Go into the Woods in Quest of Game and Return in the Spring to thare Huts before Planting time. The Women Rase Grate Crops of Corn, Been, Punkens, Potatoes, Millans and artikels—the Land is Exaleant—and Clear of Wood Sum Distans from the Villeag. Thare [are] Sum Hundred of Inhabitants. Thare amusmentsare Singing, Dancing, Smoke- ing, Matcheis, Gaming, Feasting, Drink- ing, Playing the Slite of Hand, Hunting and thay are famas in Mageack. Thay are Not Verey Gellas of thare Women. In General the Women find meanes to Grattafy them Selves without Consent of the ; Pond adds that the Sauk warriors often joined the war parties of neighboring tribes against the Indians on Missouri r. and westward; that some- times the
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