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of fighting the enemy twice, meaning they would in future give no 

 quarter."* 



During the following winter Brant visited Quebec where he was 

 warmly received by General Haldimand. The meeting in no way 

 diminished the very favourable opinion the Governor had previously 

 formed of his talents and services, and Brant on his part appeared very 

 much affected by the marks of attention he received. But he had not 

 yet forgiven Butler for thwarting his original scheme of uniting the 

 Indians under his leadership and seemed discontented and reluctant to 

 serve any longer under his directions. Real or fancied slights to which 

 he had been subjected still rankled in his mind. The assistance and 

 advice he had received from Glaus, he said, had alone enabled him to 

 perform whatever service he had rendered, when the " jealousy and 

 envy " of his enemies were throwing obstacles in the way. Mindful of 

 " his good character and faithful disposition," Haldimand suavely urged 

 him to forget past disappointments, and in April Brant set out on his 

 return to Niagara in company with Captain Brehm, the Governor's 

 aide de camp. 



Haldimand's recommendation, already cited, in conjunction with 

 frequent mention of his services in letters from Glaus and Johnson 

 caused the Ministry to decide upon a quite unexpected, and in fact 

 highly embarrassing, mode of rewarding them which Lord George 

 Germain announced in a letter of the loth of April, 1779. 



" The astonishing activity and success of Joseph Brant's enterprises 

 and the important consequences with which they have been attended, 

 give him a claim to every mark of our regard, and which you think will 

 be pleasing to him, what has occurred to me as most likely to gratify 

 him has been done, and enclosed herewith you will receive a commission 

 signed by his Majesty appointing him a Colonel of the Indians, and on 

 board the Three Brothers storeship is a box with prints taken from Lord 

 Warwick's picture of him which he was particularly pleased with, some 

 of which you will send into his nation and dispose of the others as you 

 think most honourable for him as a memorial of his services." 



"■A poet of the present day has unconsciously paraphrased these words of the IndiarLs: 



" Let us rest to-morrow, fellows, since to-day we have fought amain ; 

 Let not these men we have smitten come back on our hands agfain, 

 And say, ' Ye Wolfingf warriors, ye have done your work but ill. 

 Fall to it now and do it ag'ain, like a craftsman who learneth his skill.* " 



— William Morris^ The House of the Wolfings^ 



