HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
As soon as the boat left the island, the three 
Indians each got into his hunting canoe, and 
the two young Indians came up on either side 
opposite the bow of the boat, and continued 
thus up the river until we encamped while 
Wah-wah-peck-ah kept four or five rods behind 
the boat. They encamped with us, and com- 
menced running and playing with the men on 
the sand beach; and after a little the young 
Indians proposed to go hunting deer by candle- 
light, and asked me to give them some candles to 
hunt with, which I did, with some ammunition, 
and they promised to return with venison in 
the morning. After they had gone, Wah-wah- 
peck-ah proposed also to go hunting, and begged 
some candles and ammunition, but remained in 
camp over night. Morning came, but the young 
Indiansdid not return, and I saw no more of 
them. In the morning, after Wah-wah-peck-ah 
had begged something more, he started, pre 
tending to go down the river, and went as we 
supposed; but about an hour afterward, as we 
were passing on the right of the upper end of 
the island on which we had encampedl, I saw 
Wah-wah-peck-ah coming up on the left. lie 
looked verp surly, and we exchanged no words, 
but we were all satisfied that he was seeking 
some good opportunity to shoot me, and from 
the singular conduct of the Indians, I and my 
men were considerably alarmed. But about 9 
o'clock in the morning, meeting a band of In- 
dians from the portage of Wisconsin, who ap- 
peared to be glad to see me, and said they were 
going to Prairie du Chien, my fears with those 
of the men were somewhat allayed. I wrote 
with my pencil a hasty line to my wife, which 
the Indians promised to deliver, but they never 
did, as they did not go there. 
This day, the 26th of June, we proceeded up 
the Wisconsin without seeing any Indians until 
we came near Prairie du Baie, when an Indian 
alone in a hunting canoe, came out of some 
nook and approached us. He was sullen, and 
we could get no talk out of him. We landed 
on Prairie du Baie, and he stopped also; and a 
 
few moments thereafter, a canoe of Menomonees 
arrived from Prairie du Chien, bringing a brief 
note from John Marsh, saying the Winnebagoes 
had murdered a man of mixed French and Negro 
blood, named Rijeste Gagnier, and Solomon 
Lipeap, and for me, for God's sake, to return. 
I immediately got into the canoe with the Me- 
nomonees, and directed my men to proceed to 
the portage, and if I did not overtake them  to 
go on to Green Bay. I proceeded down the 
river with the Menomonees, and when we had 
decended to the neighborhood where we had 
fallen in with the Indians the day before, we 
met Wah-wah-peck-ah coming up in his hunting 
canoe alone, having with him his two guns. 
He inquired if I was going to the Prairie. I 
told him I was. lie then told me that the 
whisky at the Prairie was shut up, but did not 
tell me of the murders, and asked me that should 
he come to the Prairie whether I would let him 
have some whisky?    I told him I certainly 
would if he brought some furs, not wishing then 
to make any explanation, or to enter into any 
argument with him. 
About this time, we heard back of an Island, 
and on the southern shore of the Wisconsin, the 
Winnebagoes singing their war songs and dane- 
ing, with which I was familiar; and so well sat- 
isfied was I that Wah-wah-peck-ah was only 
seeking a favorable opportunity to shoot me, 
that if I had had a gun where he met us, I be- 
lieve that I should have shot him. 'After talk- 
ing with him the Menomonees moved down the 
river, and arrived at the mouth of the Wiscon- 
sin about dark without seeing any more Winne- 
bagoes. It was so dark that the Menomonees 
thought that we had better stop until morning, 
and we accordingly crawled into the bus*les 
without a fire and fought *mosquitoes all night, 
and the next morning, the 27th,proceeded to the 
Prairie. I went to my house and found it va- 
cant, and went to the old village where I found 
my familr and. most of the inhabitants of the 
Prairie, assembled at the house of Jean Bruniet, 
who kept a tavern. Mr. Brunet had a quantity 
 
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