At this place their party was surrounded and captured by a large band of Siou warriors.
The Frenchmen were at first in danger of being killed, as the Sious refused to smoke with them the pipe of peace.

But being much less bloodthirsty than the Iroquois, they soon calmed down and treated their captives with a certain rough friendliness.

All their goods were taken from them, even the vestments worn by Father Hennepin.

But they were well supplied with food such as the country produced--bison, beef, fish, wild turkeys, and the grain of the wild rice, which made such excellent flour.

They were gradually conveyed by the Siou[12] to a large settlement of that tribe on the shore of Mille Lacs, a sheet of water not far distant from the westernmost extremity of Lake Superior.