. [Documents, papers, materials and publications relating to the Northwest and the state of Illinois]. o be agreeable to human nature, as I had observedit in many instances. Having everything prepared, wemoved doAvn to a little gully a small distance above Massac,in which we concealed our boats, and set out a northwestcourse. The weather was favorable: in some paits water wasscarce, as well as game; of course we suffered drought andhunger, but not to excess. On the third day John Saun-ders, our principal guide, appeared confused; and we sooiidiscovered that he was totally lost, without there w
. [Documents, papers, materials and publications relating to the Northwest and the state of Illinois]. o be agreeable to human nature, as I had observedit in many instances. Having everything prepared, wemoved doAvn to a little gully a small distance above Massac,in which we concealed our boats, and set out a northwestcourse. The weather was favorable: in some paits water wasscarce, as well as game; of course we suffered drought andhunger, but not to excess. On the third day John Saun-ders, our principal guide, appeared confused; and we sooiidiscovered that he was totally lost, without there was someother cause of his present conduct. I asked him vaiiousquestions, and from his answers I could scarcely determinewhat to think of him; whether or not that he was lost, orthat he wished to deceive us. * * * The cry of the whole detachment was that he was atraitor. He begged that he might be suffered to go somedistance into a i)lain that was in full view to try to makesome discovery whether or not he Avas right. I told himhe might go; but that I was suspicious of him from his ;^ H- o—o O H-. Jj Sca/e /^2 .c/M. = /OO ftEartk work l^iaes of olcL ht GageOa tke Kigk lotuff East & tKc river i^rom KcLsko-skloL. Ill>^S SurvtyecL by 8r <5oru CLAliKS CONQUEST OF THE ILLINOIS 199 eonduel —thiit JJom llic lirst day of his htiug employedhe always said he knew the way well—that there was nowa different appearance—that I saw the nature of the coun-try was such that a person once acciuainted with it, couldnot in a short time forget it—that a few men should gowith him to prevent his escape—and that if he did notdiscover and take us into the Hunters Road that led fromthe east into Kaskaskia. which he had frequently described,I would have him innnediately put to death; which I wasdetermined to have done; but after a search of an houror two he came to a place he knew perfectly, and we dis-covered that the i)oor fellow liad been, as they call it, be-wild
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