94 THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND INDIANS. [1734-1755. 



and the Mississippi, besides a host of domiciliated 

 savages in Canada itself, stood ready at the bidding 

 of France to grind their tomahawks and turn loose 

 their ravenous war-parties ; while the British colo- 

 nists had too much reason to fear that even those 

 tribes which seemed most friendly to their cause, 

 and which formed the sole barrier of their unpro- 

 tected borders, might, at the first sound of the 

 war-whoop, be found in arms against them. 



