west and south they cut off for a time all communication between canada and the country and filled the land with terror almost equal to that caused by the to meet this new danger the governor of canada made a fresh treaty with the friendly tribes of the lakes and all united to destroy the common enemy eight hundred french and indians were soon marching to the fox river country under command of captain de the when they heard of their coming collected all their warriors at a place since called the des little hill of the dead not far from the present town of where they shut themselves up in a camp surrounded by three rows of strong in this camp five hundred fighting men and nearly three thousand women and children awaited the approach of their foes it was not until late in the following summer that arrived with his of soldiers de and indian when he saw how strongly the the little hill of the dead had themselves he feared to make a direct attack upon them and began to open around the camp by this means he was able on the fourth day to approach within yards of the outer the bravely defended themselves the women fighting as furiously as the men but just as was getting ready to the they sent word that if the french would make a treaty of peace with them they would surrender a council was held and the whole matter was soon settled the agreed to their country to the french to pay in the expenses of the war to give up all their prisoners and to deliver to the allied and one slave for every captive that had perished while in their hands these slaves were to be obtained by making war upon the and other distant nations soon afterward returned to canada taking with him six young chiefs as for the faithful performance of the treaty the gave no more trouble for some time but they neglected to send either the or the slaves which they had promised the french still them and for a long time it was thought for any one to go from the lakes to the country without the protection of a strong guard communication between canada and the was carried on with much difficulty and the trade in was to the great loss of all who were connected with it o the of the west iii the of the for several years the restless contrived to keep a peace with the french and with their indian neighbors at length however an incident occurred that involved them in another war and brought upon them even greater misfortunes than before it chanced that one of their chiefs while out on a expedition was captured by the and burned at the stake this aroused the fury of the they gathered their warriors together made an attack upon the and drove them to seek refuge on the rock where fort st louis built by la and had once stood there was no help for the and the might have kept them hemmed in until they starved but the latter feared the vengeance of the french and after a few days away allowing their enemies to escape when the news of this incident reached france everybody blamed the and said that there could be no safety in the country until these were utterly extinguished and it was announced that the king would handsomely reward any officer who would destroy them but the french of the knew that this would not be an easy thing to do to try to them and fail would be disastrous they said it was not until two years had passed that any direct movement was made against them finally in the early summer a great of carrying five hundred french soldiers and a thousand indians under the the of the de set out for the green bay region they up the fox river but found all the country deserted they could do nothing but burn the villages and destroy the at one place they found three and an old man with fear among the deserted the women were taken as slaves by the and the old man was to death having passed lake they came to the last of the on the banks of a small to the but they found no one there and so after burning their houses and destroying their fields of corn they turned about and back to whence and his soldiers soon returned to at different times after this other were sent out against the every man s hand seemed against them and both french and indians were bent upon their destruction even the joined their former enemies in a war party that was organized to make an end of the poor thus hunted and betrayed these unfortunate people sought refuge in vain among the hills and woods of their native country in they could muster only sixty or seventy warriors besides two hundred or three hundred women and children they were no longer strong enough to call themselves a nation and so leaving their old homes they joined themselves with their friends and neighbors the whose hunting grounds lay along the banks of the below the mouth of the after word two hundred years had passed since had sailed up the st and from the summit of royal had gazed toward the west trying in vain to the secrets that lay hidden just beyond the horizon one hundred years had elapsed since the lakes in his indian had made the first white man s visit to the shores of and it was more than fifty years since la had given the vast province of to france and yet how little had the french done toward developing the resources of their possessions a few feeble here and there in the ancient forest a few trading posts for traffic 