reveal your secret. You requested, therefore, that I should leave the fort, and even cross the lake. I did so, but I did it with reluctance. I did it with reluctance, notwithstanding that you, Minavavana, who had the command in this enterprise, gave me your promise that you would protect my friend, delivering him from all danger, and giving him safely to me. The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Minavavana, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself, you have kept your word; but I bring these goods to buy off every claim which any man among you all may have on my brother as his prisoner."

The great Ojibwa chief replied to this speech in a favorable manner. His presents were accepted and Henry was released. Wawatam conducted him to his lodge, which was only a few paces distant, and there treated him as his brother. Here Henry enjoyed once more peace of mind and a night's rest, both of which he had been deprived of for several days. On the following day, as he sat comfortably within Wawatam's lodge, he heard a great noise in the prison-house, which stood near by, and, raising up, he beheld the dead bodies of seven of the prisoners dragged forth. They had been slain by a noted chief, who had just returned from the winter's hunt. Having come too late to take part in the grand achievement of his tribesmen, he took this method of signifying his approval of what had been done. With this design he had entered the prison-lodge and murdered seven of the soldiers with his knife. Now came the scenes of canibalism. The Indians sought to increase their bravery by feasting on the bodies of their slain enemies. I shall not shock the reader with a description of this sickening feast. It was conducted in the presence of the few remaining prisoners, and must have been a painful sight to them.

It was now about one week since the massacre occurred. The Indians began to fear the approach of the English, and determined to remove to some place where they would be able to defend themselves against an attack. Accordingly three hundred and fifty warriors, with their families and household

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Here they erected their lodges
Henry and his friend Wawa-

effects, embarked in their canoes for the island of Mackinaw, which they reached in safety. and planted their little village. tam were among the number.

The Ojibwas had no sooner settled down on this beautiful island than they were visited by Pontiac's messengers, who represented that the Ottawa chief was still besieging Detroit and desired them to hasten to his assistance. The Indians listened to the invitation but they would not accept it. Already they were beginning to fear the consequences of their onset against the garrison at Michilimackinac, and they were now more anxious to secure a place of safety than to continue the war.

The fort at Green Bay, and the Saut Ste. Marie, did not share the fate of Michilimackinac. During the winter previous the .atter fort had been partially destroyed by fire and was therefore abandoned, the garrison withdrawing to Michilimackinac where most of them perished in the massacre. The fort at Green Bay was first garrisoned in 1761. The force consisted of seventeen men, commanded by Lieut. Garell. This officer, by his judicious policy, gained the friendship of all the Indians in the vicinity of his fort. On the fifteenth of June, 1763, he received the following letter from Captain Etherington, who had lately commanded at Fort Michilimackinac, and was now a prisoner at the Ottawa village of L'Arbre Croche :

"MICHILIMACKINAC, June 11, 1763.

"DEAR SIR:-This place was taken by surprise on the fourth instant by the Ojibwas, at which time Lieut. Jamet and twenty (fifteen) more were killed and all the rest taken prisoners; but our good friends, the Ottawas, have taken Lieut. Lesley, me, and eleven men out of their hands, and have promised to reinstate us again. You'll, therefore, on receipt of this, which I send by a canoe of Ottawas, set out with all your garrison and what English traders you have with you, and come with the Indian who gives you this, who will conduct you safe to me. You must be sure to follow the instruction you receive from the bearer of this, as you are by no means to come to this post before you see me at the village twenty miles from this. I must once more beg you'll lose no time in coming to join me; at the same time be very careful, and always be on your guard. I long much to see you, and am, dear sir, your most humble servant. "GEO. ETHERINGTON.

"J. GARELL, Royal Americans."

Immediately on receiving this, Garell set out with his garrison, accompanied by ninety warriors in canoes. Garell's party were in bateaux. Arriving at L'Arbre Croche, the Ottawas came out to meet them and presented them with the pipe of peace. Capt. Etherington and Lieut. Leslie, and eleven men, were detained in this village as prisoners, but were treated with kindness. Several Indian councils were now held, after which the Ottawas released their prisoners. On the eighteenth of July the English, escorted by a fleet of Indian canoes, left L'Arbre Croche for Montreal, where they arrived in the following August. Excepting the garrison of Detroit, not a British soldier now remained in the region of the lakes.

CONTINUATION OF THE

CHAPTER XI.

SIEGE OF DETROIT

ADVENTURES OF A SCHOONER ON THE DETROIT RIVER-DEFEAT OF THE INDIANSPONTIAC APPEALS TO THE FRENCH FOR ASSISTANCE HORRIBLE DEATH OF CAPT. CAMPBELL - THE WYANDOTS AND POTTAWATOMIES SUE FOR PEACE.

LET US once more return to the camp of Pontiac and the garrison at Detroit. It will be remembered that some time before the arrival of the news of the slaughter of Cuyler's detachment, one of the vessels had left the fort, passed down the river, and proceeded towards Niagara to hasten up this same reinforcement. The schooner had passed Cuyler's detachment, probably while it was encamped near the mouth of the Detroit river, and had sailed down to Niagara, where it remained until the return of Cuyler, as already explained, to report his loss. This officer, and the survivors of his party, with a few other troops spared from the garrison of Niagara, were now ordered to embark on board of this vessel, and make their way to Detroit as soon as possible. They had done so, and were now almost within sight of the fort. However, the most dangerous part of the journey was yet to be performed. In many places the channel of the river was narrow, and a thousand infuriated warriors lay in ambush to interrupt her passage. Several days passed and nothing further was heard of the expected schooner. On the twenty-first, a great commotion was noticed among the Indians, and soon after a Frenchman came to the fort with the intelligence that the vessel was again attempting to ascend the river, and that a thousand warriors had gone down to capture her. Two cannon were immediately discharged so that the distant schooner might know the fort was still in the hands of the English. Not long after she

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appeared, advancing slowly up the river. sixty men on board, but only a few of them were visible on deck. They had been ordered below, in the hopes that the Indians; encouraged by this apparent weakness, might make an open attack. Just before reaching the narrowest part of the channel, the wind died away and the anchor was dropped. "Just above, and within gun shot of the vessel, the Indians had made a breastwork of logs, carefully concealed by bushes, on the shore of Turkey Island." Behind this the Indians lay in great numbers waiting for her to pass. The men on board were not aware of this, but, expecting an attack, they kept a constant lookout. Late in the night the sentinel gave the the alarm. On the black surface of the water he saw, advancing, a fleet of Indian canoes, filled with savages. The men below were called пр, and every man stood at his post. When the Indians had approached within a few yards of the schooner, a volley of cannon and musketry burst forth from her black sides. Grape and musket shot flew tearing among the canoes, destroying several of them, killing fourteen Indians, wounding as many more, and driving the rest in confusion to the shore.. As soon as those who survived reached the shore, they began to fire upon the schooner from behind their breastwork. The vessel, thereupon, dropped down the river beyond their reach. A few days after she again attempted to ascend the river. This time she met with good success. There was a brisk wind, and, although the fire from the savages was kept up constantly from both shores, she reached the fort in safety.

This schooner brought the much needed supplies for the garrison, and the important news that peace had been concluded between France and England. The French settlers, however, pretended to disbelieve the news, declaring that it was manufactured by Major Gladwyn, and telling the Indians that the King of France was then approaching up the St. Lawrence with a mighty army to destroy their enemies. The savages fully believed these false representations, and remained firm in their position. Pontiac was not at all pleased with the reinforcements which Gladwyn had received, and he now resolved to terrify his British foe into submission. He once more sum