hands of the Indians, though through the whole night the prisoners and whites were in actual possession. That whole night, or the greater part of it, was passed in mutual condolence. In the morning Henry was visited by Wenniway, and ordered to accompany that chief. He led him to a small house within the fort, where, in a narrow room which was almost dark, he found his old friend Solomons, an Englishman from Detroit, and a soldier, both prisoners. With these he remained in painful suspense as to the scene that was next to present itself. At ten o'clock in the forenoon, an Indian arrived, and immediately marched them to the lake side, when a canoe appeared ready for departure, and in which they were ordered to embark. Their voyage, full of doubt as it was, would have commenced immediately, but that one of the Indians who was to be of the party was absent. His arrival was to be waited for, and this occasioned a very long delay, during which the Englishmen were exposed to a keen northwest wind. An old shirt was all that covered Henry, and he suffered much from the cold. At noon the party was collected, the prisoners all

the poor of Saginaw county, and deputy postmaster. At this period, Judge G. D. Williams was postmaster at Saginaw, which was the only postoffice in all the territory now embraced within the counties of Saginaw, Tuscola, Bay and Midland.

Mr. Jenny was married to Mrs. Sophia A. Hill, a sister of the late lamented James N. Gotee and Jerome H. Gotee, at Saginaw, in February, 1847. His wife is an estimable lady, of rare literary culture, and who, soon after her removal to Flint with her husband in 1849, wrote the constitution and by-laws of the Ladies' Library Association of that city, and organized it. This was the first institution of the kind formed in the Northwest, and has become the model for the hundreds of similar associations scattered throughout Michigan and the whole Northwest. In this great field of usefulness, Mrs. Sophia A. Jenny has won the highest esteem of the people of this State, and endeared her memory to coming generations.

Since Mr. Jenny's removal to Flint, he has published the Genesee Democrat-a journal which has ever been high-minded in discussion, honest in politics, and deserving of the extensive patronage which it has always enjoyed. During the late war, Mr. Jenny urged, through the columns of his journal, the "raising of men and money" that the general government might need to suppress the rebellion. Major E. W. Lyon, at that

embarked, and they started for the Isles du Castor, in Lake Michigan. The Indians in the canoe numbered seven, the prisoners four. The soldier was made fast to a bar of the canoe, by a rope tied around his neck, as is the manner of the Indians in transporting their prisoners. The others were left unconfined, but paddles were put into their hands, and they were ordered to use them. After paddling along for some time, keeping near shore on account of a dense fog that prevailed, they approached the land of the Ottawas, at Fox Point, eighteen miles from Michilimackinac. After the Indians had made their war whoop, an Ottawa appeared upon the beach and signaled them to land. When the canoe arrived in shallow water, a hundred Ottawas sprung from among the bushes, and dragged the prisoners out of it amid a terrifying shout. They gave as a reason for this action, that the Chippewas had insulted them by attacking the English without consulting them, and consequently they were friends of the English and enemies of the Chippewas. They added that what they had done

time a partner with Mr. Jenny, at once raised a company for Col. Fenton's regiment, in which he was effectually aided by Mr. Jenny.

A few years ago, participating in the celebration of the completion of the railroad from East Saginaw to Bay City, Mr. Jenny, in response to a call, said: "You of the Saginaws do not duly appreciate your geographical position and the advantages you will receive in the not distant future. Quicker than you now dream will you find yourselves on the great line of communication between the orients and the occidents. The Northern Pacific Railroad finished-now, I admit, only talked of—and the people of China and Japan will throng your streets and solicit your acquaintance and trade. You gentlemen over the table who laugh at my credulity, please remember my predictions."

If the reader will remember that those words were uttered when northern Michigan was a wilderness, and that his predictions have been already more than realized, it will be easy to appreciate the value of such a man to the infant growth of our State. It has been stated that Mr. Jenny has "built in his paper" nearly every work of improvement projected in the northern part of the State, at least half a dozen times before they were undertaken by active operations. Two projects only now remain, heretofore advocated by him, but the lookout for these is not very encouraging. They are slack-water navigation of the Flint river from Flint to Saginaw, and the "Bad River Canal" in Saginaw county.

was for the purpose of saving their lives, as the Chippewas were carrying them to the Isles du Castor to kill and eat them.

The prisoners were soon embarked again in an Ottawa canoe, and carried back to Michilimackinac, where they were marched into the fort by the Ottawas in view of the Chippewas, who were confounded at seeing their brothers of the forest opposing them. The Ottawas, being of sufficient numbers, at once took possession of the fort. The prisoners who had changed hands were lodged in the house of the commandant, and vigilantly guarded.

Early the next morning a general council was held, in which the Chippewas complained of the conduct of the Ottawas in robbing them of their prisoners, and urging them to join in the war, as the English were meeting with destruction in every part of the world. As the Indians rarely make their answers until the day following the hearing of the arguments offered, the council adjourned for that purpose.

CHAPTER XV.

THE ENGLISH PERSECUTED AT MICHILIMACKINAC AFTER THE MASSACRE -THE ADVENTURE OF HENRY-PRISONERS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE CHIPPEWAS AND THE OTTAWAS-LIEUTENANT GORELL RESCUES THE PRISONERS FROM THE OTTAWAS, AND THE ENGLISH LEAVE THE COUNTRY-ESCAPE OF HENRY.

THE prisoners, whose fate was thus in controversy, were unacquainted at the time with this transaction, and, therefore, enjoyed a night of tolerable tranquillity. The result of the council was that the prisoners were returned to the Chippewas. While in the hands of the Ottawas, the prisoners had been informed that the former intended to kill them and make broth of them; hence, we may imagine their feelings at being restored to their old enemies. The Chippewas marched them into a village of their own, and put them into a lodge, already the prison of fourteen soldiers, tied two and two, each having a rope about his neck that was made fast to a pole of the lodge. Henry was left untied; but he passed a night sleepless and full of wretchedness. His bed was the bare ground, and his only clothing was the old shirt, already mentioned. was, besides, in want of food, having for two days eaten nothing, Henry relates that, while he was in the canoe with the Chippewas, they offered him bread, but that it had been cut from the loaf with the same knives the Indians used in the massacre-knives still covered with blood. The blood they moistened with spittle, and, rubbing it on the bread, offered it to the prisoners, telling them to eat the blood of their countrymen.

He

Such was the situation of the Englishmen at Michilimackinac on the seventh of June, 1763, but a few hours produced an event that gave still a new color to Henry's lot. Toward noon, when the great war chief, in company with Wenniway, was seated at the opposite end of the lodge, his friend, Wawatam, suddenly entered. In passing by he gave Henry his hand, but went immediately

toward the great chief, and sat down beside him. The most uninterrupted silence prevailed; each smoked his pipe; and, this done, Wawatam arose and left the lodge, saying to Henry, as he passed, "Take courage!" An hour elapsed, during which several chiefs entered, and preparations appeared to be making for a council. At length, Wawatam reëntered the lodge, followed by his wife, and both loaded with merchandise, which they carried up to the chiefs, and laid in a heap before them. Some moments of silence followed, at the end of which Wawatam delivered a speech.

"Friends and relations," he began, "what is it that I shall say? You know what I feel. You all have friends, and brothers, and children, whom, as yourselves, you love; and you-what would you experience, did you, like me, behold your dearest friend, your brother, in the condition of a slave-a slave, exposed every moment to insult and to menaces of death. This case, as you all know, is mine. See there (pointing to Henry) my friend and brother among slaves-himself a slave. You all well know that, long before the war began, I adopted him as my brother. From that moment he became one of my family, so that no danger of circumstances could break the cord which fastened us together. He is my brother; and, because I am your relation, he is, therefore, your relation, too; and how, being your relation, can he be your slave?

"On the day on which the war began you were fearful lest, on this very account, I should reveal your secret; you requested, therefore, that I should leave the fort, and even cross the lake. I did so; but I did it with reluctance. I did it with reluctance, notwithstanding that you (naming the chief) who had the command in this enterprise, gave me your promise that you would protect my friend, delivering him from all danger, and giving him safely to me. The performance of this I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. I bring these goods, to buy off every claim which any man among you all may have on my brother, as his prisoner."

Wawatam having ceased, the pipes were again filled; and, after they were finished, a further period of silence followed. At the end of this, Minavavana arose and gave his reply: