The British were to celebrate the day by sports and feasting, and the Chippewas and Sacs asked to be allowed to entertain the officers with a game of lacrosse.

Etherington expressed pleasure at the suggestion, and told the chiefs who waited on him that he would back his friends the Chippewas against their Sac opponents.

On the morning of the 4th posts were set up on the wide plain behind the fort, and tribe was soon opposed to tribe.

The warriors appeared on the field with moccasined feet, and otherwise naked save for breech-cloths.

Hither and thither the ball was batted, thrown, and carried.