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savages, who grew so bold that they lurked through 

 the streets at nights, and lay in ambush in the gar- 

 dens where the garrison of Fort Washington raised 

 their vegetables. One of the Indian attacks, made 

 upon a little palisaded "station" which had been 

 founded by a man named Dunlop, some seventeen 

 miles from Cincinnati, was noteworthy because of 

 an act of not uncommon cruelty by the Indians. In 

 the station there were some regulars. Aided by the 

 settlers they beat back their foes; whereupon the 

 enraged savages brought one of their prisoners with- 

 in earshot of the walls and tortured him to death. 

 The torture began at midnight, and the screams of 

 the wretched victim were heard until daylight. 13 



Until this year the war was not general. One 

 of the most bewildering problenis to be solved by 

 the Federal officers on the Ohio was to find out 

 which tribes were friendly and which hostile. Many 

 of the inveterate enemies of the Americans were as 

 forward in professions of friendship as the peaceful 

 Indians, and were just as apt to be found at the 

 treaties, or lounging about the settlements ; and this 

 widespread treachery and deceit made the task of 

 the army officers puzzling to a degree. As for the 

 frontiersmen, who had no means whatever of telling 

 a hostile from a friendly tribe, they followed their 

 usual custom and lumped all the Indians, good and 

 bad, together; for which they could hardly be 

 blamed. Even St. Clair, who had small sympathy 

 with the backwoodsmen, acknowledged 14 that they 



!S McBride, I, 88. " American State Papers, IV, 58. 



