Note 121 — Chapter III · THE FOX WARS: A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT
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Ibid., 339.
[122] Ibid., 341. That they came to Chicago is not directly stated, but I consider this a fair inference from this and the preceding documents.
[123] It is true there were two Frenchmen with the party, as already stated. But these had a direct interest in permitting the Indian reports to go uncorrected; one of them was, in fact, promoted for his participation in this expedition, and the other was an outlawed bushranger among the Illinois, whose "reprobate life" had been the subject of an indignant letter from the governor to the French ministry only the year before (Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVI, 302-3). Now, apparently, a virtue was made of necessity, and he was urged to use his influence over the Illinois to induce them to join the Hurons in the proposed expedition.