To Ottawa?
I will make a guess that it is a bit over a hundred miles, and from there to Chicago sixty or seventy more.

Those last would be over a good trail." "An' whar do yer reckon are them Injuns--the hostile ones; this yere bunch o' Black Hawk's ?" "Somewhere up Rock River, or along the Green Valley.

I'll point it out to you--see; there is where Black Hawk had his village and his hunters ranged all over this country, down as far as the Illinois.

Of course, I cannot tell where they are now, for that depends on how far the soldiers have driven them, but it would be my guess they will be somewhere in here--between Prophetstown and the Winnebago Swamp." "Let's see; thet ain't so dern fer away either.

I reckon this yere course ye've just picked out wudn't take us mor'n twenty mile er so away.