_Memorials on Indian Affairs._——_Character of Bradstreet._——_Departure of the Army._——_Concourse of Indians at Niagara._——_Indian Oracle._—— _Temper of the Indians._——_Insolence of the Delawares and Shawanoes._—— _Treaty with the Senecas._——_Ottawas and Menomonies._——_Bradstreet leaves Niagara._——_Henry’s Indian Battalion._——_Pretended Embassy._—— _Presumption of Bradstreet._——_Indians of Sandusky._——_Bradstreet at Detroit._——_Council with the Chiefs of Detroit._——_Terms of the Treaty._——_Strange Conduct of Bradstreet._——_Michillimackinac reoccupied._——_Embassy of Morris._——_Bradstreet at Sandusky._——_Return of the Army._——_Results of the Expedition._ 387 CHAPTER XXVII. 1764. BOUQUET FORCES THE DELAWARES AND SHAWANOES TO SUE FOR PEACE. _Renewal of Indian Ravages._——_David Owens, the White Savage._—— _Advance of Bouquet._——_His Message to the Delawares._——_The March of his Army._——_He reaches the Muskingum._——_Terror of the Enemy._—— _Council with the Indians._——_Speech of the Delaware Orator._——_Reply of Bouquet._——_Its Effect._——_The English Camp._——_Letter from Bradstreet._——_Desperate Purpose of the Shawanoes._——_Peace Council._—— _Delivery of English Prisoners._——_Situation of Captives among the Indians._——_Their Reluctance to return to the Settlements._——_The Forest Life._——_Return of the Expedition._ 418 CHAPTER XXVIII. 1764. THE ILLINOIS. _Boundaries of the Illinois._——_The Missouri. The Mississippi._—— _Plants and Animals of the Illinois._——_Its early Colonization._—— _Creoles of the Illinois._——_Its Indian Population._ 452 CHAPTER XXIX. 1763-1765. PONTIAC RALLIES THE WESTERN TRIBES. _Cession of French Territory in the West._——_St. Louis._——_St. Ange de Bellerive._——_Designs of Pontiac._——_His French Allies._——_He visits the Illinois._——_His great War-belt._——_Repulse of Loftus._——_The English on the Mississippi._——_New Orleans in 1765._——_Pontiac’s Embassy at New Orleans._ 462 CHAPTER XXX. 1765. RUIN OF THE INDIAN CAUSE.