121 



while it rained ; and then, travelling on, we 

 saw a party of the enemy, about two hun- 

 dred yards before us, but hiding ourselves 

 in the bushes, we had again the good fortune 

 not to be discovered. This night we got out 

 of the glades, having in the night crossed the 

 paths by which we had advanced to San- 

 dusky. It was our design to leave all these 

 paths to the right, and to come in by the 

 Tuscarawas. We should have made a much 

 greater progress, had it not been for two of 

 our companions who were lame : the one 

 having his foot burnt ; the other with a 

 swelling in his knee, of a rheumatic nature. 

 " On this day, which was the second 

 after the retreat, one of our company, the 

 person affected with the rheumatic swelling, 

 was left behind some distance in a swamp. 

 Waiting for him some time, we saw him 

 coming within one hundred yards, as 1 sat 

 on the body of an old tree, mending my 

 mokkisons ; but taking my eye from him I 

 saw him no more. He had not observed 

 our tracks, but had gone a different way. 



