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Title: History of the conspiracy of Pontiac, and the war of the North American tribes against the English colonies after the conquest of Canada
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
Subjects: Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
Publisher: Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown London, R. Bentley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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on entitle him, tofill any future trust to which his majesty may bepleased to call him. This hope was not destinedto fulfilment. Within three years after his returnfrom the Muskingum, he was attacked with a feverat Pensacola, which closed, by a premature death,the career of a gallant soldier and a generous man. The Delawares and Shawanoes, mindful of their en-gagement and of the hostages which they had givento keep it, sent their deputies, within the appointedtime, to Sir William Johnson, who concluded a treatywith them, stipulating, among the other terms, thatthey should grant free passage through their countryto English troops and travellers; that they shouldmake full restitution for the goods taken from thetraders at the breaking out of the war; and thatthey should aid their triumphant enemies in the dif-ficult task which yet remained to be accomplished— that of taking possession of the Illinois, and oc-cupying its posts and settlements with British troops.1 1 MS. Johnson Papers.
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CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ILLINOIS. We turn to a region of which, as yet, we havecaught but transient glimpses ; a region which toour forefathers seemed remote and strange, as to usthe mountain strongholds of the Apaches, or thewastes of farthest Oregon. The country of the Illi-nois wTas chiefly embraced within the boundaries ofthe state which now retains the name. Thitherward,from the east, the west, and the north, three mightyrivers rolled their tributary waters; wdiile countlesssmaller streams — small only in comparison — trav-ersed the land with a watery network, impregnatingthe warm soil with exuberant fecundity. From theeastward, the Ohio—La Belle Riviere—pursued itswindings for more than a thousand miles. TheMississippi descended from the distant north; whilefrom its fountains in the west, three thousandmiles away, the Missouri poured its torrent towardsthe same common centre. Born among mountains,trackless even now, except by the adventurousfootstep of the trapper,—nurture

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