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great humanity, and remarkable for his 

 hospitality ; few strangers coming to the 

 western country, and not spending some 

 days at the crossings of the Yochaghany 

 river where he lived : no man, therefore, 

 could be more regretted." 



The following is the narrative of John 

 Slover: 



" Having in the last war been a prisoner 

 amongst the Indians many years, and so be- 

 ing well acquainted with the country west of 

 the Ohio, I was employed as a guide in the 

 expedition under Colonel William Craw- 

 ford against the Indian towns on or near 

 the river Sandusky. It will be unnecessary 

 for me to relate what is so well known, the 

 circumstances and unfortunate event of that 

 expedition ; it will be sufficient to observe, 

 that having on Tuesday the 4th of June 

 fought the enemy near Sandusky, we lay 

 that night in our camp, and the next day 

 fired on each other at the distance of three 

 hundred yards, doing little or no execution. 

 In the evening of that day it was proposed 



