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THE JOURNEY TO BEAVER ISLANDF | ^HE soldierwho was our companion inmisfortune was made fast to a bar of thecanoe by a rope tied round his neck, as isthe manner of the Indians in transportingtheir prisoners. The rest were left unconfined;but a paddle was put into each of our handsand we were made to use it. The Indians inthe canoe were seven in number, the prisonersfour. I had left, as it will be recollected,Major Etherington, Lieutenant Lesslie, andMr. Bostwick at M. Langlade's, and was nowjoined in misery with Mr. Ezekiel Solomons,the soldier, and the Englishman who had newlyarrived from Detroit. This was on the sixthday of June. The fort was taken on the fourth;I surrendered myself to Wenniway on thefifth; and this was the third day of our distress.We were bound, as I have said, for the Islesdu Castor which lie in the mouth of LakeMichigan; and we should have crossed the lake,but that a thick fog came on, on account ofwhich the Indians deemed it safer to keep theshore close under their lee. We therefore approachedthe lands of the Ottawa and theirvillage of L'Arbre Croche already mentionedas lying about twenty miles to the westward of95