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were some distance to the right of the main 

 body, had separated from me, &c. I tried 

 a long time to disengage my horse, until I 

 could hear the enemy just behind me and 

 on each side, but in vain. Here then I was 

 obliged to leave him. The morass was so 

 unstable that I was to the middle in it, and 

 it was with the greatest difficulty that I got 

 across it ; but which having at length done, 

 I came up with the six men, who had left 

 their horses in the same manner I had done; 

 two of these, my companions, having lost 

 their guns. 



" We travelled that night, making our 

 course towards Detroit, with a view to shun 

 the enemy, who we conceived to have taken 

 the paths by which the main body of our 

 people had retreated. Just before day we 

 got into a second deep morass, and were 

 under the necessity of stopping until it was 

 light to see our way through it. The whole 

 of this day we travelled toward the Shaw- 

 anese towns, with a view of throwing our- 

 selves still farther out of the search of the 



