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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.11
the Indians had made their winter hunts.
Some bands of the Sacks took credit at the U. S. Factory in the fall of 1808. No matter how inferior an article, if the Indian can obtain it on a credit he will take it.
Owing to bad counsels the Indians made that year poor hunts. They kept in a body and counseled among themselves the best manner of surprising Fort Madison or rather the temporary stockade before the new fort could be occupied. They knew
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