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Title: History of Tazewell county, Illinois ; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Chas. C. Chapman & Co., pub
Subjects: Tazewell County (Ill.) -- History Tazewell County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : C.C. Chapman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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tering their intrenchments, their courage greatly subsided.With fear they recalled the exaggerations of Tonti respecting theirnumbers, and concluded to send him with a hostage to make over-tures of peace. He and his hostage were received with delight bythe Illinois, who readily assented to the proposal which he brought,and in turn sent back with him a hostage to the Iroquois. On hisreturn to the fort his life was again placed in jeopardy, and thetreaty was with great difficulty ratified. The young and inexpe-rienced Illinois hostage betrayed to his crafty interviewers the nu-merical weakness of his tribe, and the savages immediately rushedupon Tonti, and charged him with having deprived them of the spoilsand honors of victory. It now required all the tact of which he wasmaster to escape. After much difficulty however, the treaty was con-cluded, but the savages, to show their contempt for it, immediatelycommenced constructing canoes in which to descend the river andattack the Illinois.
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;:^;as)^* AN IROQUOIS CHIEF. HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 39 FRENCHMEN DRIVEN AWAY. Tonti managed to apprise the latter of their designs, and he andMembre were soon after summoned to attend a council of the Iro-quois, who still labored under a wholesome fear of Count Frontenac,and disliking to attack the Illinois in the presence of the French,thej thought to try to induce them to leave the country. At theassembling of the council, six packages of beaver skins were intro-duced, and the savage orator, presenting them separately to Tonti,explained the nature of each. The first two, said he, were to de-clare that the children of Count Frontenac, that is, the Illinois,should not be eaten; the next was a plaster to heal the wounds ofTonti; the next was oil wherewith to anoint him and Membre,that they might not be fatigued in traveling; the next proclaimedthat the sun was bright; and the sixth and last required them todecamp and go home. At the mention of going home, Tonti demanded of them whenthey

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