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there were some groves of hickery, and scrubby Oaks in the Valleys. The Town of the Saukies, is by far the largest and best built Indian Town that I ever saw, it contains near eight houses, each large enough for several families, the streets are pretty regular and wide, the houses are built with hewn Plank, the edges well jointed and close, they have comfortable shades at their doors, fronting the streets with seats, where they sit and smoke their pipes in hot weather, the land near the Town is very good, they raise aboundance of Indian Corn, Beans, Pumpkins, squashes, of all sorts, and water melons, in so much that this Town is esteemed the best market for Traders to buy Provisions at, of any Town within eight hundred miles of it; I saw abundance of good Lead laying about in the streets; they are about three hundred Warriors strong, shew are mostly employed every summer, in War, against the Ilinois and Pawnee Nations from whence they being numbers of Slaves, sometime they are served in the same manner by those their enemies, which I judge is the reason that they don't increase more. The 14th. of October proceeded down the River, the next day reached the first Town of the Ottigaumies, this Town contains about fifty houses, but found them mostly deserted, on account of a very Epidemical disorder that raged among them, and had carried off more than one half of the Inhabitants, the rest had mostly fled into the Wilderness to avoid the Contageon. On the 15th of October, entered the Mississippi, The Ouisconsin River, from the Carrying place to where it joins the Mississippi, flows with a smooth, tho' pretty hard Current, a most clear sandy bottom without [[catchword]] many [[/catchword]]
