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PERSONAL NARRATIVE.39
After the battle they repaired to their village on Rock River. After resting awhile they collected a war party of one hundred men, headed by the Boiling Thunder and soon were joined by a small party under Monges des homme (or Man Eater).
On the 1st January, 1812, they encamped a mile from my trading house. A Sack woman went out early in the morning to procure bark to stretch fur with, and discovered them; perceiving that they were painted for war, she hastened back
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