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Brickell, who, though at first maltreated, and forced 

 to run the gantlet, was afterward adopted into the 

 tribe, and was not released until after Wayne's vic- 

 tory. After his adoption, he was treated with the 

 utmost kindness, and conceived a great liking for 

 his captors, admiring their many good qualities, 

 especially their courage and their kindness to their 

 children. Long afterward he wrote down his ex- 

 periences, which possess a certain value as giving, 

 from the Indian standpoint, an account of some of 

 the incidents of the forest warfare of the day. 



The warriors who had engaged in this raid on 

 their former friends, the settlers along the Alle- 

 ghany, retreated two or three days' journey into the 

 wilderness to an appointed place, where they found 

 their families. One of the Girtys was with the In- 

 dians. No sooner had the last of the warriors come 

 in, with their scalps and prisoners, including the 

 boy Brickell, than ten of their number deliberately 

 started back to Pittsburg, to pass themselves as 

 friendly Indians, and trade. In a fortnight they 

 returned laden with goods of various kinds, includ- 

 ing whiskey. Some of the inhabitants, sore from 

 disaster, suspected that these Indians were only 

 masquerading as friendly, and prepared to attack 

 them; but one of the citizens warned them of their 

 danger and they escaped. Their effrontery was as 

 remarkable as their treachery and duplicity. They 

 had suddenly attacked and massacred settlers by 

 whom they had never been harmed, and with whom 

 they preserved an appearance of entire friendship 



