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amine me, which they could do in their 

 own language ; inasmuch as I could speak 

 the Miame, Shawanese, and Delaware lan- 

 guages, which I had learned during my 

 early captivity in the last war : I found I 

 had not forgotten these languages, especially 

 the two former, being able to speak them as 

 well as my native tongue. 



" They began with interrogating me con- 

 cerning the situation of our country ; what 

 were our provisions ; our numbers -, the 

 state of the war between us and Britain. 

 I informed them, Cornwallis had been 

 taken ; which, next day, when Matthew 

 Elliot, with James Girty, came, he affirmed 

 to be a lie, and the Indians seemed to give 

 full credit to his declaration. 



" Hitherto I had been treated with some 

 appearance of kindness, but now the enemy 

 began to alter their behaviour towards me. 

 Girty had informed them, that when he 

 asked me how I liked to live there, I had 

 said that I intended to take the firsj oppor- 

 tunity to take a scalp and run off. It was, 



