THE DILEMMA OF CAPTAIN HELM Oncle Jazon, feeling like a fish returned to the water after a long and torturing captivity in the open air, plunged into the forest with anticipations of lively adventure and made his way toward the Wea plains.

It was his purpose to get a boat at the village of Ouiatenon and pull thence up the Wabash until he could find out what the English were doing.

He chose for his companions on this dangerous expedition two expert coureurs de bois, Dutremble and Jacques Bailoup.

Fifty miles up the river they fell in with some friendly Indians, well known to them all, who were returning from the portage.
The savages informed them that there were no signs of an English advance in that quarter.

Some of them had been as far as the St.Joseph river and to within a short distance of Detroit without seeing a white man or hearing of any suspicious movements on the part of Hamilton.