Note 131 — Chapter III · THE FOX WARS: A HALF-CENTURY OF CONFLICT

For the original documents pertaining to this affair see Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVI, 418-22, 428-31.

[132] The Indian designation for the French Governor. It was later applied also to the French King.

[133] Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVI, 429-30. An inaccurate description of the affray at Starved Rock is given by Charlevoix (History of New France, VI, 71). He states that the Illinois beat off the Foxes with a loss of one hundred and twenty men, having themselves lost only twenty. He adds that the attack determined the Illinois to abandon the Rock and Lake Peoria, and join their kinsmen who had already sought refuge at Fort Chartres. No check whatever now existed to the raids of the Foxes along the Illinois River, and communication between Canada and Louisiana by this route became more impracticable than ever. It is plain, however, in spite of Charlevoix's statements, that there were Illinois at the Rock during the following years. For references to them between 1730 and 1736 see Wisconsin Historical Collections, XVII, no, 183, 251. At the latter date the Illinois village numbered fifty warriors.