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ployed in making sugar. Their huts were large, and covered with the bark of the Buck Eye wood. Their troughs for catching the sugar water as it is called, are made of the bark of the red elm, they are made thin, and the ends tied together. We were shown the places where stood the houses of several distinguished char-acters amongst the Indians. Captain Wells also took us to the ground, where the Little Turtle reviewed his men, and gave them their orders before going against the army of General St. Clair. It is an extensive plain near the river.Wells was then one of the number, and says theLittle Turtle had one thousand four hundred men; St. Clair's army consisted of a much larger number, and were about fifty miles distant at the time. The Little Turtle divided his men into bands or messes, to each mess twenty men. It was the business of four of this number alter-nately to hunt for provisions. At 12 o'clock each day it was the duty of the hunters to re-turn to the army with what they had killed. By this regulation, his warriors were well supplied with provisions, during the seven day's in which they were advancing from this place to the field of battle. It is well known that at day break the Indians commenced an unexpected attack upon St. Clair's forces, killed nine hundred of his men, and put his whole army to flight.Wells says, that only about thirty Indians were killed in the battle, and that about twenty died