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Captain Moran, who marked from the Green Bay, in the Winter upon snow to their Villages, about 50 miles up the Fox River, and came upon them by surprize; Killed and took the most of them, but in returning to the Green Bay, [[underline]] the Ottigaumies report, [[/underline]] that one of the Indian Chiefs, [[underline]] with the French, [[/underline]] had a number of Prisoners with him, the men were all bound, the Chief, or Captain of the Warriors, stop'd in crossing a brook to drink, during which Time his attendants moved on; a Woman Prisoner observing him stooping before her, while drinking, saw a fair opportunity of revenging herself upon the Enemy, seized with both her [[note]] remarkable Woman of the Saukies. [[/note]] hands, the Captain of the Guard by a most critical part, and held him fast untill he expired upon the spot, and that without giving any alarm to the party forward, then cut the men Prisoners loose and made their escape. The Woman was afterward treated as their deliverer, & with every honor in their power to bestow, by being made a Chiefes in her own right, and to descend to her heirs forever. About twelve miles before I arrived to the Carrying place; I observed several small mountains, which continued to the carrying place, [[underline]] and what is remarkable, [[/underline]] these are the first mountains I had seen after my leaving Niagara, which is about eleven hundred miles; and these would be accounted only as mole hills; in comparison to those on the back of the Colonies. The River of the Foxes where it enters the Winnebagoe Lake, is about fifty yards wide, and gradually [[catchword]] decreases [[/catchword]]
