Virginia and Pennsylvania, after the close of the war of the Revolution, and brought away captives.  One of these was the notorious and infamous John Tanner.  They lived under a perfect dictator, in the person of Kish-ka-ko, who made and altered laws to suit a strong-willed savage mind.  They were originally a band of Chippewa refugees.  They settled here when the Sauks in the 17th century were driven off.  Their name is derived from this.  The true sound of the word is Saukinong, or Place of the Sauks.  It has been improperly assimilated to Saganosh, i.e., Englishman.

23d.  Rev. John A. Clark, of Philadelphia, writes, requesting a contribution to the “Christian Keepsake,” which denotes the interest in the Indian subject to be unabated.

CHAPTER LXI.

Tradition of Pontiac’s conspiracy and death—­Patriot war—­Expedition of a body of 250 men to Boisblanc—­Question of schools and missions among the Indians—­Indian affairs—­Storm at Michilimackinack—­Life of Brant—­Interpreterships and Indian language—­A Mohegan—­Affair of the “Caroline”—­Makons—­Plan of names for new towns—­Indian legends—­Florida war—­Patriot war—­Arrival of Gen. Scott on the frontiers—­Resume of the difficulties of the Florida war—­Natural history and climate of Florida—­Death of Doctor Lutner.

1838. Jan. 1st.  OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DETROIT,—­In the recent trip to Flint River, Mr. Henry Conner told me one day that he had been acquainted with the Indian person who, in 1763, informed Major Gladwyn, the commanding officer at Detroit, of Pontiac’s conspiracy.

The affair had other motives than Carver imagines.  She thought more of saving the life of Major Gladwin than of saving the whole Anglo-Saxon race.  She had been a very handsome person in her youth, being nearly white, though of Indian blood.  Owing to her gallantries, her husband had bit off her nose.  When an old woman, she became intemperate, and, on one of these occasions, at a sugar camp on the Clinton River, she fell backward into a boiling kettle of sap, and thus perished.  Truly “the way of the transgressor is hard.”

He stated the tradition respecting Pontiac’s death as it was related by a chief who well knew the facts.  The English made great efforts to conciliate a man of such powerful abilities and influence, and endeavored to enlist him as an ambassador among the Western Indians to bring them into their interests.  Pontiac used deception in appearing to fall in with their views, and went on this business to the country of the Illinois, which was then about to be surrendered to them.  They took the precaution to send with him, as an associate, a chief called Chianocquot, or the Big Cloud, who was strongly attached to their interests.  When Pontiac reached the region of the Illinois posts, instead of persuading the Indians to peace and friendship with the English, he advised them not to surrender the country, and, in his addresses to them, he used the most persuasive arguments to dissuade them from permitting the surrendry at all, and gave vent to his natural feelings and sentiments in favor of the French and against the English.