A treaty was finally signed by them on the 24th of August, by which, for a valuable consideration in annuities and goods, they ceded to the United States about five millions of acres of choice lands.
Before this negotiation was finished, I was seized with bilious fever, and consequently did not sign the treaty.

It was of the worst bilious type, and acute in its character.

I did not, indeed, ever expect to make another entry in a human journal.

But a vigorous constitution at length prevailed, and weeks after all the party had left the ground, I was permitted to embark in a vessel called the Decatur on the 23d of September for Detroit.

We reached Michilimackinack the seventh day of our voyage, and returned to Detroit on the 6th of October.