Indian army, circle within circle, standing round us. Godefroi sat at a little distance from us; and presently came Pondiac, and squatted himself, after his fashion, opposite to me. This Indian has a more extensive power than ever was known among that people; for every chief used to command his own tribe: but eighteen nations, by French intrigue, had been brought to unite, and chuse this man for their commander, after the English had conquered Canada; having been taught to believe that, aided by France, they might make a vigorous push and drive us out of North America." "Pondiac said to my chief: If you have made peace with the English, we have no business to make war on them. The war-belts came from you.' He afterwards said to Godefroi: 'I will lead the nations to war no more; let 'em be at peace, if they chuse it; but I myself will never be a friend to the English. I shall now become a wanderer in the woods; and if they come to seek me there, while I have an arrow left, I will shoot at them.'. . . .
"He made a speech to the chiefs, who wanted to put me to death, which does him honor; and shews that he was acquainted with the law of nations. 'We must not,' said he, 'kill ambassadors; do we not send them to the Flat-heads, our greatest enemies, and they to us? Yet these are always treated with hospitality."'"
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More than half the documents intended for publication in the Appendix have been omitted, from an unwillingness to increase the size of the volume.
Of the accompanying maps, the first two were constructed for the illustration of this work. The others are fac-similes from the surveys of the able engineer Thomas Hutchins, the friend of Colonel Bouquet, and chronicler of his expeditions into the Indian country. The original of the larger of these fac-similes is prefixed to Hutchins' Account of Bouquet's Expedition. That of the smaller will be found in his Topographical Description of Virginia, etc. Both these works are rare.
ACADIA, dispute concerning its bounda-
ries, 86. Outrage upon its people, 102.
Albany, 135.
Algonquin family, the, its extent, 25.
Algonquins, Northern, the, their sum-
mer and winter life, 31, 405. Their
legendary law, 33.
Allegory of the Delaware Indian, 180.
Amalgamation of French and In-
dians, 69.
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, captures Ticon-
deroga, 112. His character, 172. His
efforts for the prosecution of the
war, 345.
Resigns his command,
Bloody Bridge, fight of, 272.
Borderer, the dying, 349.
Borders, the war on the, 344.
Bouquet, Colonel, ordered to relieve
Fort Pitt, 346. His army leaves
Carlisle, 352. His life and charac-
ter, 353. March of his army, 357.
His victory at Bushy Run, 359. His
march into the Indian country, 1764.
482. Forces the Indians to ask peace,
487. His council on the Muskin-
gum, 488. He compels them to
surrender their prisoners, 494. Grants
peace to the Indians, 498. His pro-
motion, 511. His death, 512. His
expedition into the Indian country,
1764, 620. Vote of thanks for his
services, 621.
Armstrong, Colonel, his expedition up Braddock, General, sails for America,
the Susquehanna, 394.
Atotarho, tradition of, 11.
92. Marches against Fort du Quesne,
94. His defeat and death, 98, 100.
Aubry, his council with the Indians, Bradstreet, Colonel, his character, 448.
Beleaguered by Indians, 357.
Bedford, Fort, attacked by Indians, 331. Calhoun, his escape, 327.
Calumet dance at Detroit, 185.
Campbell, Major, his embassy to Pon-
tiac's camp, 210. Made prisoner by
Pontiac, 212. His death, 261.
Canada, its military efficiency, 45. Its
religious zeal. 45. Attacked by the
Iroquois, 60. State of, in 1759, 111.
Conquered by the English, 126.
Canadians, the, their character, 43.
Dalzell, Captain, he sails for Detroit,
267. His arrival, 269. His sortie
from Detroit, 270. His death, 275.
Davers, Sir Robert, murdered near De-
troit, 207.
Cannibalism of the Indians at Michilli- | Delawares, the, their history and charac-
mackinac, 313.
Captive, the escaped, 388.
Captives, sufferings of, 387.
Carlisle, alarm at, 347. Scenes at, 350.
Carousal of the Indians at Detroit, 235.
Catharine, she betrays the Indian plot,
193.
Champlain, his expedition against the
Iroquois. 59.
Chapman, his escape from torture, 330.
Character of the Indian, 35. Of the
French Canadian, 43. Of the French
Of hunters and trap-
savage, 70.
pers, 141. Of the Virginian back-
woodsman, 378. Of the Creole of
the Illinois, 518.
Chouteau, Pierre, 523, 568.
ter, 26. Forced to remove westward,
76. Their treaty with the English in
1757, 127.
Detroit, surrendered to Major Rogers,
150. Black Rain at, 187. Its origin
and history, 187. Its French popula-
tion, 189. Indians of its neighbor-
hood, 189. Its defences, its garrison,
190. Plot against its garrison de-
feated, 199. General attack upon it.
207. The Indians continue to block-
ade it, 251. Truce granted to the
Indians at, 402. Its garrison relieved
by Bradstreet, 465. Councils at,
Devil's Hole, ambuscade at, 374.
Dieskau, Baron, sails from Brest, 92.
Christie, Ensign, his defence of Presqu'- Dinwiddie, Governor, sends Washing-
Isle, 246.
Civilization and barbarism, 140.
Collision of French and English colo-
nies, 85.
Colonies, French and English, com-
pared, 41.
Conestoga, manor of, 411.
Conestoga Indians, massacred by the
Paxton men, 414, 417.
against, 604.
Conspiracy, Pontiac's, 161.
Council at the River Ecorces, 177.
Courage of the Indians, its character, 217.
Coureurs des bois, 69.
Croghan, George, his mission to the
west, 539. His councils at Fort Pitt.
544. Attacked by Indians, 550. His
meeting with Pontiac, 552. His coun-
cils with Indians at Detroit, 553.
Result of his mission, 558.
Crown Point, 85.
Cuyler. Lieutenant, capture of his de-
tachment, 231, 233.
Ecorces, River, council at the, 177.
Ecuyer, Captain, his speeches to the In-
dian chiefs, 334, 340.
Elder, John, his efforts to defend the
frontier, 391. His position and charac-
ter, 412. He remonstrates with the
Paxton men, 417.
English, their impolitic course towards
the Indians. 154.
Eries, the, 22.
Etherington, Captain, his letter to Glad-
wyn, 242.
Made prisoner by the In-
dians, 298. His letter to Gorell, 319.
Fight of Bloody Bridge, 272.
Fire rafts, 263.
Fisher, murdered at Detroit, 205.
Forest traveller, the, 137.
Forest warfare, difficulties of, 171.
Franklin, Benjamin, his embassy to the
Paxton men, 438.
Fraser, Lieutenant, his mission to the
Illinois, 546.
French, English, and Indians, 58.
French, the, their increasing power in
the west, 63. Their intrigues among
the Indians, 157.
French posts in the west, 55.
Frontenac, Count, his expedition against
the Iroquois, 61.
Frontier forts and settlements, 323.
Frontiers of Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia, 379, 380.
Frontiers, desolation of, 381.
Frontiersmen of Pennsylvania, their
distress and desperation, 409. Their
turbulent conduct, 541.
Fur-trade, the, of the French and Eng-
lish, 63, 64. English, its disorders, 155.
Fur-traders, English, 71, 137.
Gage, General, assumes the command
in America, 398.
Gladwyn, Major, his address and resolu
tion. 194, 199. His narrow escape, 266.
Glendenning, Archibald, attack on his
house, 283.
Gorell, Lieutenant, his prudence and
address, 318. He abandons Green
Bay, 321.
Goshen, false alarm at, 372.
Grant, Captain, he conducts the retreat
of the English at Bloody Bridge, 277.
Green Bay, 284, 317.
Hay, Lieutenant, sallies from Detroit,
Henry, Alexander, his adventures at
Michillimackinac, 286. Warned of
danger by Wawatam, 294. His narrow
escape, 299. His adventures, 307.
His account of an Indian oracle, 451.
His Indian battalion, 460.
Holmes, Ensign, detects an Indian plot,
167. His death, 245.
Hurons, the, their character, 19. Con-
quered by the Iroquois, 21.
Illinois, the, nation of, 29. French set-
tlements at, 139. Its character and
products, 514. Its colonization, 517.
Its French population, 518. Neighbor.
ing Indians, 520. Its cession to the
English, 522. Occupied by the Eng.
lish, 559.
Indian tribes, their general characteris-
tics, 2. Their generic divisions, 5.
Indians, their religious belief, 34. Their
character, 35. The policy of the
French and English towards, 65, 68.
Iroquois family, the, 6, 24.
Iroquois, the extent of their Conquests,
6, 575. Their government, 8.
Tra-
ditions of their confederacy, 11.
Their myths and legends, 13. Their
intellectual powers, 13. Their arts
and agriculture, 14. Their forts and
villages, 14. Their winter life, 16.
The war-path, 16. Their feasts,
dances, and religious ceremonies, 18
Their pride, 18. They conquer the
Hurons, 21. Their warlike triumphs,
22. Their adoption of prisoners, 23.
Attacked by Champlain, 59. Their
wars with Canada, 60. Attacked by
Count Frontenac, 61. Their tyranny,
77. Inclined to the French alliance,
78. Their conduct during the French
war, 130. Their council with Sir
William Johnson in 1763, 370. They
join the English in 1763, 406. Policy
of the French and English towards
them, 576.
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