When the Doctor met him, he was standing by the side of a tree, apparently unemployed.

The Indian, says the Doctor, addressed him, and said something, from which he understood they wanted them to guide him to Chicago.

As he knew he should get something to eat from them, he concluded he would go with them as far as Chebiogan.

Accordingly, he fell in with the party about 2 P.M., and walked on until they had passed the Manatoowack River, about three miles.
"They came to a small rise of ground, over which two of the soldiers had passed, and the other was by the side of the Doctor's horse, and both were just on the top.

The Indian was about two rods in the rear, and was at the foot of the hill, when a gun was fired in the rear, and Madison received the charge in his shoulders and in the back of his neck, and immediately fell from his horse.