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 the
Little 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