In testimony whereof we, the undersigned, have hereunto set our hands and seals, at the mouth of the river St. Peters, on the 23d day of September, 1805.
| Z. M. Pike, 1st lieut. and agent at the above conference. | (L. S.) | |
| Le Petit Corbeau, | his X mark | (L. S.) |
| Way Ago Enagee, | his X mark | (L. S.) |
Art. 6. Letter, Pike to Wilkinson. (Orig. No. 4, pp. 9-13.)
St. Peters, Nine Miles below the Falls
of St. Anthony, Sept. 23d, 1805.
Dear General:
I arrived here two days since, but shall not be able to depart before day after to-morrow. Three of my men have been up to view the falls, but their reports are so contradictory that no opinion can be formed from them.
All the young warriors of the two villages of Sioux near this place, and many chiefs, had marched against the Chipeways, to revenge a stroke made on their people, the very day after their return from their visit to the Illinois; ten persons were then killed on this ground. I yesterday saw the mausoleum in which all their bodies are deposited, and which is yet daily marked with the blood of those who swear to revenge them. But a runner headed them, and yesterday they all arrived—about 250 persons, in company with those who were in the ponds gathering rice. Amidst the yelling of the mourners and the salutes of the warriors there was a scene worthy the pen of a Robertson [qu. Rev. Wm. Robertson, the Scottish historian, b. 1721, d. 1793?]